Penny Mordaunt calls Andrew Bridgen ‘the first cuckoo of spring’ after vaccine rant

The Reclaim Party MP Andrew Bridgen today called for a statement to be made on the discussions the government supposedly held with the BBC over its new fact-checking unit “Verify”. Mr Bridgen accused the BBC of spreading disinformation on Covid vaccines.

In response, Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt said: “I think we may have just heard the first cuckoo of spring”.