Boris Johnson has criticised anti-Covid vaccine activists for spreading “nonsense” on social media, while stressing that he does not support moves to overtly pressure people into getting vaccinated. “I want to say to the anti-vax campaigners, the people who are putting this mumbo jumbo on social media: they are completely wrong,” Johnson told broadcasters on a visit to a vaccination centre in Moulton Park, Northampton. But he added: “What a tragedy that we’ve got all this pressure on the NHS, all the difficulties that our doctors and nurses are experiencing, and we’ve got people out there spouting complete nonsense about vaccination. “They are totally wrong, and I think it’s time that I, the government, call them out on what they’re doing. Even this was notably unpopular with Tory MPs, 101 of whom rebelled in a Commons vote in December, leaving him reliant on Labour support for the measure to pass.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2022 22:27 UTC