High Court Finds Matt Hancock’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Tweet Defamatory

Published on June 25, 2024

The High Court has ruled that a tweet by former conservative health minister Matt Hancock labelling an ‘unnamed MP’ as ‘antisemitic’ was defamatory by common law and will go ahead for trial at a later date. The judgement on preliminary issues for libel was given on Monday after action was brought forward by former North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen about a post by the former Health Secretary Matt Hancock on social media platform X on Jan. 11, 2023. Mr. Hancock’s social media post came after Mr. Bridgen shared a link to an article “concerning data about deaths and other adverse reactions linked to Covid vaccines,” with the caption, “As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.”...

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