The US president warned pregnant women to "tough it out" and avoid paracetamol last year, highlighting a "meteoric rise" in cases of autism.

The easiest way to talk about autism is to find someone to blame. The hardest way is to build systems that actually support autistic children and their families. We, however, keep choosing the easy way.

A major scientific review has directly contradicted Donald Trump’s assertion that taking paracetamol in pregnancy can cause autism.

The study, published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’s Health, directly refutes assertions made by U.S. President Donald Trump in September, who claimed a "meteoric rise" in autism cases and suggested Tylenol – known as paracetamol in the UK – was a potential cause.