On Friday, the former Conservative and now Reclaim MP Andrew Bridgen made a series of claims in the House of Commons that there was a “clear stepwise increase in mortality following the vaccine rollout.”
Mr. Bridgen used an adjournment debate to attempt to draw links between a recorded rise in excess deaths in the UK and Covid vaccinations.
In the live-streaming of Bridgen’s address on its BBC Parliament Channel, the BBC put several slogans onscreen throughout his speech.
Some of them included that “the NHS says COVID-19 vaccines used in the UK are safe and the best protection from getting seriously ill with the disease.”
Another included that “the NHS says measles and mumps are rising in England due to a drop in the number of children being given the MMR vaccines.”
In March, he was ousted after he posted an article on Twitter, commenting, “As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.”
Excess Deaths
During his excess deaths speech, Mr. Bridgen criticised authorities such as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) saying that “there’s a total failure to collect, nevermind publish, data on deaths that are referred for investigation to the coroner.”“Surely the ONS should be desperately keen to investigate deaths in young men,” he said.
“Why else have an independent body charged with examining mortality data? Surely the ONS has the responsibility to collect data from the coroners to produce timely information,” he added.
He said that there are “substantially more excess deaths and in younger people and this complete and eerie silence.”
Mr. Bridgen claimed that the “trial data showed that one in 800 injected people had a serious adverse event, meaning they were hospitalised or had a life-changing or life-threatening condition.”
“The risk of this was twice as high as the chance of preventing a COVID-19 hospitalisation,” he said.
The Epoch Times has not been able to independently verify this claim.
A spokeswoman for the ONS told The Epoch Times by email that it “is not correct that deaths that are referred to a coroner are not included in ONS mortality statistics.”
‘Does Not Necessarily Disagree With Him’
During the debate, Junior Health Minister Maria Caulfield said that “she does not necessarily disagree with him.”“But I think we need to have a robust conversation on this and not to assume that one side necessarily has all the answers,” she added.
Ms. Caulfield acknowledged there has been an increase in excess deaths in the last year, but added, “His analysis is something I will disagree with because the causes that he refers to are simply… do not bear to the statistics that we have.”
Laurence Fox told The Epoch Times, “It’s hugely important that we start to unpick the disastrous failed public health experiment of the past three years, learn the lessons and make sure that it never ever happens again.”
An Ofcom spokesperson told The Epoch Times by email: “The Ofcom Broadcasting Code contains a number of rules to protect audiences from harm. Broadcasters have editorial freedom to decide how they achieve compliance with those rules.”
The BBC did not respond to The Epoch Times’s request for comment.
