In a series of leaked emails in 2006, he called one fellow MP ‘Mr Angry’ and another ‘mincehead’
Cutting a flamboyant figure on the floor of the House of Commons with pithy but forcefully delivered interventions, Desmond Swayne has become something of a darling of “anti-lockdowners”.
But the former international development minister’s dalliance with Covid-denying street activists from Save Our Rights is far from his only brush with controversy.