A Labour minister has rejected Donald Trump’s claim that there is a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy with autism.

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

Trump 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 have no autism,” the president claimed.

He said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would be notifying all US doctors with new guidance advising mothers-to-be not to use paracetamol during their pregnancy.

But appearing on Sky News on Tuesday, housing minister Matthew Pennycook sai

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