Overview

• Aseem Malhotra is slated to deliver the only main‑stage health address at Reform UK’s Birmingham conference this weekend, billed as a speech on “making Britain healthy again.”
• Health minister Stephen Kinnock called Reform “riddled with conspiracy theorists,” warning voters about the NHS under the party, as a new BMG poll for The i Paper shows Reform 15 points ahead of Labour.
• The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges cautioned that moving away from established vaccine science “puts lives in danger,” with senior doctors urging Nigel Farage not to emulate US anti‑vaccine policy shifts.
• Malhotra serves as chief medical adviser to MAHA Action linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, whose recent US decisions include cancelling $500 million for mRNA vaccine work and replacing the national immunisation advisory committee.
• Reform says Malhotra was invited as a medical professional and supporter to discuss public health and asserts it would protect the NHS, while Malhotra says he will focus on commercial influence over science.