Nigel Farage has been urged by leading doctors not to 'put lives in danger' after Reform UK handed a top slot at their party conference to a vaccine sceptic.

Dr Aseem Malhotra, an NHS-trained cardiologist, is due to speak from the main stage at the Reform conference in Birmingham on Saturday.

He has claimed that mRNA vaccines developed during the Covid pandemic did 'more harm than good' and called for them to be suspended.

Dr Malhotra is also a medical adviser to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative of Donald Trump's vaccine-sceptic health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Mr Kennedy Jr. has alarmed health experts in the US since taking charge of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in February.