Steve Baker has tested positive for Covid-19.

The Wycombe MP has tweeted to say he developed a "mild head cold" on Monday, but that he has received both doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

He wrote: "@Join_ZOE sent me for a test, though I did not qualify by symptoms otherwise.

"Positive result just in. Now isolating etc, thankful to AZ that symptoms so v mild."

There were a number of comments under his tweet wishing him well, including from GB News presenter Tom Harwood, who wrote: "Hope everything stays mild and recovery is swift."

And Philip Donnelly added: "Get well soon. Need you back in parliament ASAP holding the Government to account."

According to national reports, Mr Baker predicted that Boris Johnson could trigger the first Tory party split in almost 200 years if he brings in compulsary vaccine passports.

The Prime Minister prompted outrage by saying university students could have to get both jabs if they wanted to attend lectures or stay in halls of residence.

Mr Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tories, told The Sun: “It is an outrageous proposal, and one that doesn't seem likely to do any good.

“Who are they now trying to coerce? Whose education are they now trying to deny?

“I believe the government is in terrible danger of splitting the Tory Party irretrievably - after all we have been through with Brexit.”

His comments came as other MPs, football clubs and universities all slammed the plan.

But Michael Gove, who is pushing hard for the plan to go ahead rejected the idea and said that vaccine refusers could also be barred from some events.

He told the PA news agency: “We’re going to do what’s right for public health and I think that Covid certification in certain limited venues and for certain limited events is a way of making people safer and giving more of us more freedom.” 

Mr Gove added: “Ultimately, if you can be vaccinated and you refuse to, that is a selfish act.

“You’re putting other people’s health and lives at risk, you should get vaccinated.”