Ed Balls and Richard Tice arguing over the Covid vaccine

Ed Balls was left “flabbergasted” this morning after Richard Tice defended Reform UK’s decision to platform someone who openly speculated about a link between the Covid-19 vaccine and the King’s cancer.

While Reform has insisted that it is not a home to conspiracy theorists, they allowed a vaccine-sceptic doctor to give a speech from the main stage at their party conference last week.

Dr Aseem Malhotra, an adviser to US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, claimed vaccines “created havoc” in the human body.

He also alleged that an “eminent oncologist” had told him the Covid vaccines played a “significant factor in the cancers of members of the royal family”.

This remark triggered Reform council leader, Linden Kemkaran, to then suggest the party should hold an inquiry into the claim.

On ITV’s Good Morning Britain, presenter Balls told Reform’s deputy leader Tice that........

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