FORMER Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said he has launched legal action against Matt Hancock after announcing he is joining Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party.

The MP lost the Conservative whip over a tweet comparing the Covid-19 vaccine rollout to the Holocaust, which prompted Mr Hancock to call it anti-Semitic.

Mr Bridgen told GB News: “I think the Conservative Party has lost its way. It no longer is relatable to the hopes and aspirations of the people. And I think Parliament’s lost its way. We seem to have a uni-party, there’s no real opposition.

“What we do know is that anyone that speaks out against the narrative as I have done will be cancelled.

“I believe we should have a parliament that legislates for the people. What we’ve now got is a parliament that creates problems for the people and that can’t be tolerated, we need to reclaim our democracy.

He added: “By the way I need to tell you that yesterday I filed in the Courts of Justice the defamation claim against Matt Hancock MP.”

On joining the Reclaim Party during a discussion with Andrew Pierce and Bev Turner, he said: “You will be surprised, I think. There’ll be a lot of Reclaim candidates at the next general election.

“The longer we go on until the next general election, which I don’t think actually will be that long, the more I’m going to be vindicated as further science comes out about the harms and lack of safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccinations.”

He added: “We offer smaller government, letting people earn more money and retain more of their own money.

“We would certainly get rid of HS2. We do not believe that there is actually a climate emergency. This is, I’m afraid, another sort of propaganda that’s been pushed on to the people.

“We want Parliament to actually represent the views of the people, not some elite around the world who seem to have more power over policy and in the house behind me than the people we’re supposed to represent.

“I don’t think that Sir Keir Starmer is the answer. He’s already said that he prefers to be in Davos than Westminster. That man is not fit to be Prime Minister.”