{"id":2002738,"date":"2025-09-06T21:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2002738"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:37:11","slug":"claims-at-reform-conference-that-vaccines-gave-royals-cancer-extremism-says-streeting-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/claims-at-reform-conference-that-vaccines-gave-royals-cancer-extremism-says-streeting-politics-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims at Reform conference that vaccines gave royals cancer ‘extremism’, says Streeting | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A vaccine-sceptic doctor has told the Reform UK conference that COVID vaccines contributed to cancer in the royal family – to criticisms of “extremism” from the health secretary and condemnation from experts.<\/p>\n

Dr Aseem Malhotra spent around a quarter of an hour presenting a series of claims on the main stage of the conference in Birmingham – with thousands present in the crowd.<\/p>\n

Dr Malhotra, who described himself as a friend of controversial US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, said hundreds of studies showed the harms of mRNA vaccines.<\/p>\n

He went on to say that he agreed with another doctor that “it’s highly likely that the COVID vaccines have been a factor, a significant factor, in the cancer of members of the royal family.”<\/p>\n

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Sky News has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment.<\/p>\n

The comments were met with silence from the audience in the room.<\/p>\n

Wes Streeting, the Labour MP and health secretary, was quick to criticise Dr Malhotra.<\/p>\n

He said: “When we are seeing falling numbers of parents getting their children vaccinated, and a resurgence of disease we had previously eradicated, it is shockingly irresponsible for Nigel Farage to give a platform to these poisonous lies.<\/p>\n

“Farage should apologise and sever all ties with this dangerous extremism.”<\/p>\n

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Blood Cancer UK’s healthcare professional advisory panel, which is made up of specialists from across the UK, said: “There are no controlled, large-scale studies (studies with the most robust scientific evidence) that demonstrate an increased cancer risk following COVID-19 vaccination.”<\/p>\n

Brian Ferguson, a professor of viral immunology and the University of Cambridge, said: “There is no credible evidence that these vaccines disrupt tumour suppressors or drive any kind of process – biochemical or otherwise – that results in cancer.<\/p>\n

“It is particularly crass to try to link this pseudoscience to the unfortunate incidents of cancer in the royal family and is reminiscent of the ‘died suddenly’ trope which attempted – and ultimately failed – to link the death of any young person to their vaccination status.<\/p>\n

“This kind of outlandish conspiracy theory only serves to undermine the credibility of those spreading it.”<\/p>\n

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Lord Bethell, the Conservative peer and former health minister, said: “This [is] bad science, bad royal-watching and bad politics – the British public strongly support vaccines and resent people who try to hijack our much-loved royal family for promoting loopy ideas.<\/p>\n

“Might work well with American donors, but this is a clanger for Reform UK<\/strong><\/a>‘s credibility. I hope they give up this rubbish.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Reform UK said: “Dr Aseem Malhotra is a guest speaker with his own opinions who has an advisory role in the US government. Reform UK does not endorse what he said but does believe in free speech.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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