Wes Streeting has slammed Donald Trump’s claim that there is a link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism.

The health secretary told pregnant women not to “pay any attention whatsoever” to what the US president said.

He said they should “listen to British doctors, British scientists, the NHS”, all of whom insist paracetamol is safe to use.

Trump made the comments in the White House on Monday, despite being unable to provide any evidence to back them up.

Standing alongside his anti-vaccine health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, he said there had been a “meteoric rise” in cases of autism and suggested that paracetamol – which is called Tylenol in the US – is a potential cause.

“There are certain groups of people that don’t take vaccines and don’t take any pills, that

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