Forty-year-old MP says he received leftover dose of Covid vaccine

A 40-year-old Conservative MP who received the coronavirus vaccine after spending an afternoon volunteering at a local hospital has said this happened because there were some left-over doses, which would have otherwise gone to waste.

Brendan Clarke-Smith, who became MP for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire at the 2019 election, received his first vaccination dose on Friday, after helping at Retford hospital.

In a Facebook post, Clarke-Smith wrote that he had spent the afternoon volunteering at the hospital.

He said: “As a volunteer I was also asked to have a vaccine. Many people have asked me about the safety of vaccines and I have always said that my family and I would all have no problem having one.”