Rupert Lowe was one of the few political figures willing publicly to offer support to Andrew Bridgen following his expulsion from the Conservative Party.
In an article in December 2023 Mr Lowe said Mr Bridgen had “correctly” raised the matter of Covid vaccine safety and efficacy in Parliament and had been unfairly vilified by the Conservative Party for doing so.
Of the vaccination programme he said: “Incidents of coagulation disorders, acute cardiac injury, Bell’s palsy and encephalitis have markedly increased and a risk/benefit analysis is now urgently required.”
This position did his reputation no harm amongst the people of Great Yarmouth, where vaccine champion and Moderna investor Rishi Sunak’s government had alienated 14,385 presumably largely Conservative voters sufficiently that they handed Reform and Mr Lowe the seat at the General Election in July last year.
He was one of a disgracefully low number of MPs to attend a debate in January about the need for reform of the MHRA - the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency - during which he said:
“How did the MHRA allow politicians, celebrities and even its own agency to describe these vaccines as safe and effective, when yellow card data clearly showed it is not universally safe and certainly not universally effective?”
We therefore had higher hopes of a reply from Mr Lowe than the previous thirty MPs we have written to as part of this project. He is one of fifty-three elected representatives aged 65 or over in the Autumn of last year and thereby advised to take a Covid booster in the NHS campaign that began in October 2024.
This is the letter we sent to Mr Lowe and four other MPs on 7th January:
Peter Prinsley (Lab, Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket) Ruth Cadbury (Lab, Brentford and Isleworth) Peter Dowd (Lab, Bootle) and Paul Davies (Lab, Colne Valley) all received the same letter.
Mr Prinsley is not just a Member of Parliament but also a surgeon, who continued full time practise until March of this year. He did not reply to our letter.
Ms Cadbury urged her Twitter followers to get a shot in February 2021, urging them: “don’t believe the lies of the anti-vaxxers!” She went on to post pictures of herself being injected on two more occasions before the end of that year, but she is now silent when asked if she is staying up-to-date.
Mr Dowd was posting on Twitter in March 2021 about his first jab but is now silent when asked to go public with his current status.
Mr Davies has never publicly supported the vaccination programme, as far as we have been able to determine. He did not choose now to begin; as tight lipped as the other four on the subject of whether these products are still right for him, his family and his constituents.
Join us next week for the next five names on our list.
MPs asked: 35
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