To the US, where President Donald Trump has suggested his administration has ‘found an answer to autism’. On Monday, Trump drew links between paracetamol and rising rates of autism across America. US health officials warned that acetaminophen (paracetamol) should be avoided in early pregnancy to avert the development of autism in later life, with Trump insisting at a press conference: ‘Taking Tylenol (paracetamol) is not good. I’ll say it. It’s not good.’ But the scientific evidence doesn’t back up the President’s position – and now in a break from the UK’s love-in with Trump, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has dismissed the controversial claim.

Speaking on ITV, Streeting urged voters to ignore Trump’s autism claims:

I trust doctors over President Trump, frankly, on this. I’ve just got t

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