Together Declaration Report: Part Two, the company one keeps
The wider disinformation space Together inhabits, conferences, Brigen, Malhotra and the conspiracy theorists dinner at the Carlton Club
Part One looked at the creation and launch of the Together Declaration to oppose vaccine mandates and passports. Founded and launched by antivax conspiracy theorists and veteran culture war characters, Part Two examines the wider disinformation space Together inhabits.
2022 Is Britain Working?
In the autumn of 2022 Together held an event called Is Britain Working?
Alongside Together founder Alan Miller, on off board member Molly Kingsley and close ally Claire Fox the other speakers were Bernie Spofforth and Rupert Lowe.
Spofforth is a controversial online disinformation merchant best known for posting disinformation on Twitter immediately after the Southport Attack regarding the suspect's identity, which was followed by the Southport Riots.
Rupert Lowe was elected as a Reform MP in the 2024 General Election, almost immediately afterwards he left the party after a bitter falling out with Nigel Farage. Lowe set up Restore Britain, which is currently acting as a policy/campaigning platform further to the right than Reform in regards to migration and deportation. Restore Britain has assembled a cabinet of sorts, but it's unclear as of yet if this is an embryonic political party or a pressure group. What is clear is that Lowe has the full endorsement of Elon Musk who has tweeted repeatedly that Farage is an inferior choice to Lowe.
Molly Kingsley is the founder of UsForThem which argued that children should be allowed the benefit of covid infection. The HARTleaks revealed Kingsley was a member of the HART working group that coordinated a disinformation campaign against covid vaccines for children. Kingsley is an author for the Brownstone Institute, the US successor organisation to the Great Barrington Declaration run by child labour advocate Jeffrey Tucker.
Kingsley was initially listed on Together's website as a member of the executive board, when I raised this with Kingsley she claimed she'd never been involved with Together but would be privileged to be. Her name had been taken off the website, but later she rejoined the board before leaving again. This second exit may have been because she felt the association with Together wouldn't have been helpful in her bids to become a core participant in the covid inquiry.
After claiming she had been smeared for years as far-right and anti-vax, Kingsley has become an avid fan of RFK Jr, backing his Presidential bid and then travelling to Washington to celebrate Trump’s inauguration. She has called for the UK to follow RFK Jr's policies in regards to vaccines.
Is the Great Reset Inevitable?
Together held a fringe at the Conservative Party in October 2022 and on 24 October held an event titled “Is the Great Reset inevitable? And to what extent do globalist non-governmental organisations such as WEF, WHO and the Gates Foundation undermine democracy?”
Speakers included Frank Feruidi and Ben Pile. Pile joined Together's cabinet as their spokesperson against Net Zero, he also writes for Toby Young's Daily Sceptic suggesting claims of man made climate change are fraudulent.
The event claimed it would look at both sides of the argument, the two sides being if covid restrictions, Net Zero etc are malignly harmful or if covid restrictions, Net Zero etc are just misguided and harmful.
The introduction by Alan Miller began by suggesting the removal of Liz Truss as Prime Minister was part of a globalist agenda “Why should we let markets dictate? Rishi is the revenge of the globalist agenda” before going on to describe “Brown, Blaire, Starmer, Trudeau, Macron and Ardern” as “serving the globalist agenda”.
The first speaker was Frank Furedi of Spiked Online who said the market should have been ignored as he called out “collaborators in politics” and said he was “grateful” for “conflict and friction” breaking down the global order, before describing the Bill Gates foundation as one of the worst “sinister organisations”. Another speaker Nick Hudson, founder of covid disinformation group Pandata described the World Economic Forum (WEF) as the “key world centre for fascism” engaging in “media domination, fake climate change where they claim one simple molecule is responsible for so much harm”. Hudson now claims there wasn't a pandemic.
The event finished with a discussion on how to draw people to the cause with one speaker suggesting “don’t start with the Great Reset… because you’re just gonna alienate people, do stuff like Net Zero” suggesting to start with complaining about energy bills then “you may find them more amenable to broader arguments that there are problems with Net Zero and Ukraine”.
Andrew Bridgen
One of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, Andrew Bridgen, appears to have been completely radicalised by the covid disinformation ecosystem. Bridgen's radicalisation appears to have begun with opposing lockdowns as part of the CRG and listening to HART as though they were experts. He attended HART's launch event alongside other MPs and journalists.
Going beyond simply leaning into conspiracy culture he began claiming vaccines had killed millions, likening them to the Holocaust. This led to him being kicked out of the Conservative Party, and his descent down the rabbit hole continued into pro Putin propaganda and chemtrails.
This led him to celebrating Aseem Malhotra when the grifting crank published a woeful anti-vax paper with the support of HART's Clare Craig, in his own journal.
Malhotra is closely aligned to Together, and was a guest speaker at their fringe event at the 2025 Reform Conference.
On 27 September 2022, Malhotra published a paper with Clare Craig in his own journal calling for the immediate halt to Covid vaccination. The paper was released via a press conference by the World Council for Health (WCH), founded by Tess Lawrie as an umbrella organisation for groups promoting a range of alternative treatments from ivermectin to protection from 5G.
Lawrie was a member of Pandata and HART before forming the British Ivermectin Research Group (BIRD). BIRD is the sister organisation to Pierre Kory’s Frontline Covid Critical Care (FLCCC) organisation in the US, they promote alternative treatment protocols for covid, long covid, and “spike detox”.
At the launch Malhotra claimed there was a “willful blindness” to vaccine injuries, likening the situation to Germans ignoring Nazi atrocities. Other speakers included Lawrie and Ryan Cole of FLCCC and also linked to AFLD. Malhotra was interviewed by Pandata’s Ivor Cummins in a documentary released at the same time and spoke at Chope’s APPG.
After being thrown out of the Conservative Party, Bridgen joined former actor turned far-right activist Lawrence Fox's Reclaim Party.
21 February 2023, the Byline Times reported on a conspiracy theorists’ dinner party at the exclusive Carlton Club hosted by Andrew Bridgen and John Mappin, a QAnon and pro-Putin conspiracy theorist. Malhotra was the guest of honor.
The key is John Mappin who jointly issued the invitation. Pictured above on Bridgen’s table with his wife, Irena, Mappin is a QAnon-promoting, Trump-supporting Scientologist with his own media group. He funded the transplant of the far-right US student group Turning Point to the UK. The launch event of TPUK, labelled a “Gathering of Political Genius”, took place in 2018 and guests included Nigel Farage and filmmaker Amanda Eliasch. Both of whom were present at Bridgen’s Carlton Club gathering this week.
Eliasch shared photographs of the night on social media which included the Bridgen group, Farage, and her friend Lady Victoria Hervey. Eliasch is also a family friend of the Grant sisters. Alice Grant began her political career as an ambassador for TPUK and is now Head of Education for the Orthodox Conservative Group; a youth group with strong links to both parliament and GB News, dedicated to pushing the Conservative party further to the Right.
The TPUK connection to GB News was well-represented at Bridgen’s evening with Dominique Samuels also present. Currently, a presenter for GB News, Samuels has come under fire for tweeting ill-advised conspiracy theories about the pandemic and promoting the “Died Suddenly” film – with its false claims of a high number of deaths supposedly caused by the vaccine.
Attendees included many other well known characters from the covid disinformation ecosystem and the wider radical right.
The dinner demonstrated how the international radical right has embraced the anti-vax movement. One of the other speakers, Robert Malone, the self-titled inventor of mRNA technology, has spent years appearing at conferences and events around the world, and is a regular on the right wing podcast circuit. In 2025 Malone was one of RFK Jr's controversial picks for a vital vaccine committee.
Eva Vlaar, is a popular radical right media commentator who is openly ethno-nationalist and Christian Nationalist. She tours radical right conferences, rallies and podcasts, including National Conservatism conferences and Tommy Robinson's Unite The Kingdom London rally in 2025. The rally featured a number of activists from other countries including Elon Musk who spoke via livestream telling the crowd they had to be prepared to fight or die.
Her attendance at the Carlton Club alongside other usual characters from outside the UK evidences that the disinformation ecosystem is an international campaigning machine. The shared policy platform across the radical right means an event in the UK can be used to reinforce the narrative globally.
Masjid Nawaz was an LBC presenter who became radicalised over the first year of the pandemic. Going from supporting the GBD to platforming anti-vax commentators, he was one of ten signatories of a deranged letter to the intelligence agencies of the Five Eyes security pact nations claiming that lockdowns had been forced on the world as part of a grand conspiracy by the Chinese Communist Party. After his contract was ended by LBC in 2021 Nawaz continued down the rabbit hole like Bridgen.
Bridgen’s funders
Bridgen resigned in late December 2023 from Reclaim after having only been a member for nine months. Bridgen stated his resignation from Reclaim was “because of a difference in the direction of the Party” but that he “will still wholeheartedly support the policies and the values of the Reclaim Party.”
The Reclaim Party’s statement wishing Bridgen every success said they had made “a considerable donation to Andrew’s campaign fund.” The Register of Members’ Financial Interests show Bridgen was paid £1500 for eight hours of consultancy for every month since he joined the party. Reclaim’s company accounts had been overdue since the end of August 2023.
Reclaim was exclusively funded by the businessman Jeremy Hosking. Hosking was previously a long-standing donor to the Conservative Party, and contributed £1.7 million to the Vote Leave campaign in 2016. He backed pro-Brexit candidates during the 2017 General Election, but attempted to set up a new political party, Brexit Express in 2019. In total Hoskings sunk over £4million into Reclaim.
Hosking wasn't the only one to bankroll Bridgen’s downward spiral.
The register shows Bridgen received funding from sources such as Robert F Kennedy Jr’s anti-vax organisation, Children’s Health Defense, (CHD) to speak at various overseas anti-vax conferences, and Bridgen hosted his own anti-vax panel on 4 December 2023.
From the MPs register of financial interests 2023.
14-16 April – Spotlight Conference in Norway, donation of £612 from CHD’s European chapter and the Binder’s Initiative. CHD ran a joint campaign against the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine with UK based organisation Safer To Wait.
1-3 September – Facts Matter conference in Denmark, donation of £555 from The Danish Freedom Movement
28 September to 1st October – On Guard for the Liberty of Mankind conference organised by CHD in Sweden, donation of £951 by The Doctors Appeal.
While Bridgen’s downfall was well documented in the media, this didn't deter Together from treating him as a serious authority on covid.
On 17 January 2024, Together published an hour and forty minute video called “EXCESS DEATHS: Hidden Factors, Hidden Threats? - ‘End of Life’ Protocols Discussed”, which suggested that the excess deaths caused by covid were in fact killed by hospital treatment. It's the scamdemic conspiracy theory, which serves the purpose of undermining trust in all institutions, such would be the scale of the cover up required. There must be considerable cognitive dissonance in those who simultaneously believe governments are both incompetent at running the country whilst also being engaged in vast conspiracies and cover ups.
In the 2024 General Election was thoroughly rejected by his constituency, not even gaining enough votes to retain his deposit.
Foreign influence
When the anti-vax movement is mentioned many make the mistake of continuing to think mainly of fringe extremists, such has been the speed of the normalisation of anti-vax talking points in mainstream discussion. Prior to the pandemic, traditional conservatism in many countries was being undermined and usurped by the radical right, the tidal wave of disinformation that came with covid accelerated this process, and now the anti-vax agenda is becoming fully embedded within the radical right policy base.
The conspiracy theorists dinner at the Carlton Club, the close association with GB News, and the bankrolling of unserious characters like Bridgen demonstrates that the antivax movement has become well connected and has the support of members of the super rich.
In the US the disinformation ecosystem is now the establishment, RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Vinay Prasad, Tracy Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Robert Malone, and others have all taken up positions in the Trump administration where they have free reign to undermine vaccines. Even with Trump, prior to the pandemic someone predicting the current MAHA attacks on vaccines would have been labelled with Trump derangement syndrome by the right wing media. Now elements of the media try to justify the MAHA regime, and not just in the US, in the UK the Telegraph in particular has been responsible for some appallingly misleading negative headlines on vaccines.
This is why it’s so dangerous to just dismiss the anti-vax movement as fringe extremists with little influence outside their corners of the internet, they are now plugged into the infrastructure of the radical right.