
BORIS JOHNSON: Why I considered invading Holland with a dramatic canal raid to snatch our five million stolen vaccines back from Brussels' clutches
Daily MailBritain's top brass filed into my office in No 10, bearing with them hundreds of years of collective operational experience, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Boris receives his Covid booster Jab at London's St Thomas' Hospital in December 2021 A nurse holds a phial of the Pfizer BioNTech Covid vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London as the immunisation programme begins in December 2020 We had the people who could do the job – special units that we had stood up in early 2020, as soon as it became clear that there was going to be a global contest for life-saving kit such as PPE and ventilators. It was the plant where the EU had stowed five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine – doses that the company was trying, in vain, to export to the UK. The only reason that five million doses had been waylaid at the Halix plant in the Netherlands was that Halix was a long-standing part of AstraZeneca's supply chain, and indeed the Dutch plant had been part-financed to the tune of £21 million by the UK government. By the end of February, we had vaccinated 30 per cent of the UK population – as against 8 per cent in the EU.
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