LONDON — A British cardiologist who has touted his connections to top Trump administration health officials has set off a furor in U.K. health circles after giving a speech at a political conference in which he made a number of false claims about the Covid-19 vaccine.

Speaking at the conference of the ascendant right-wing political party Reform U.K., the doctor, Aseem Malhotra, said that “mRNA jabs have likely killed or seriously harmed millions of people across the world” and claimed a top oncologist told him the shots were a factor in cases of cancer that have afflicted members of the British royal family.

“What I’m telling you today is nobody is immune to medical misinformation because of this corrupted system,” Malhotra said at Reform’s conference in Birmingham. Reform later moved to

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