Expelled Tory Andrew Bridgen has refused to trigger a by-election after defecting to Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party.
Mr Bridgen confirmed he had jumped ship to become the right-wing party's first MP, after the Tories kicked him out for saying the Covid vaccine was the "biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust".
He crossed the floor in Parliament to sit on the opposition benches - much to the displeasure of the Lib Dems and Green MP Caroline Lucas who moved to sit farther away.
