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A 61-year-old man has been charged with assaulting former health secretary Matt Hancock on the London Underground.Geza Tarjanyi, from Leyland, Lancashire, was charged with common assault and two public order offences, British Transport Police said.The MP who appeared on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! is understood to have been unhurt in the alleged attack on Tuesday, which his spokesman described as an unpleasant encounter.

A former Tory whip has criticised the decision to suspend Andrew Bridgen after he appeared to compare the Covid-19 vaccine rollout to the Holocaust.Adam Holloway said stripping the whip from the North West Leicestershire MP was part of a frighteningly totalitarian, woke way of looking at the world.The Gravesham MP, who served as a government whip for three months during the overlap between Boris Johnson and Liz Truss' administrations, said he did not agree with Mr Bridgen's views on the coronavirus vaccine.

A man has been charged with assaulting the former health secretary, Matt Hancock, on the London underground.Geza Tarjanyi, 61, from Leyland in Lancashire, will appear in court next month, accused of common assault and two public order offences, British Transport Police (BTP) said on Thursday.A spokesperson for the MP for West Suffolk described the incident that began at Westminster station on Tuesday before continuing on a tube train as an unpleasant encounter.

The BBC has come under fire from scientists for interviewing a cardiologist who claimed certain Covid vaccines could be behind excess deaths from coronary artery disease.Experts have criticised Dr Aseem Malhotra's appearance on the corporation's news channel on Friday, accusing him of pushing extreme fringe views, which are misguided, dangerous and could mislead the public.

Mpox symptoms include lesions on the body (Image: PA Media) Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) cases in London are under control, but an outbreak could occur again, an expert in infectious disease has warned.Dr Jake Dunning, a leading consultant in infectious disease at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, encouraged everyone who is eligible to get an Mpox vaccine to prevent future outbreaks.

China says it plans to ramp up Covid-19 vaccinations among its elderly population.The move follows widespread anti-lockdown protests and the abandonment of its controversial zero-Covid policy.The relatively low vaccination rate for older people in China has been a major obstacle in relaxing the country's strict controls on the spread of the virus.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter.Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.For a brief moment, there seemed to be a lull in the politicization of a plague.Sure, there were still the anti-vaxxers showing up at school board meetingsand sometimes running themand the occasional kerfuffle over mandates boiled over.