Lest you forget.
The Johnson Government’s decision not to join the EU vaccine procurement programme was widely vilified at the time. Today’s Daily Mail has a useful catalogue of who said what when
eg The Observer: “Brexit means Covid vaccine will be slower to reach UK.”
Martin McKee, left-wing professor at London School of Hygiene: “UK will have to join other non-EU countries in a queue to acquire the vaccine after EU states have had it.”
LBC’s James O’Brien — ad nauseam
Labour MP Catherine West, shadow minister for Europe: the decision is “dumb and dumber”
Bianca Jagger: Johnson is “endangering people’s lives”
“Comedian” James Felton: how “to kill your citizens” just to stuff the EU
Lib Dem Health spokesperson Munira Wilson: “it’s unforgivable”
Corbynista MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy: “yet again [the government] is putting ideology before saving lives?
“Comedian” David Schneider: it’s like an episode of “”Who cares if you die as as we Brexit”. Not joining EU scheme proves “Brexit is a death cult”.
James O’Brien — ad nauseam
Then there’s the abuse heaped on Kate Bingham, former head of UK’s vaccine task force at the centre of our success, just because she’s Tory MP’s wife. Pretty good case study of everyday sexism.
LD “leader” ED Daley: she “must resign”. Johnson’s “dodgy cronyism” is a “disgrace”
Labour MP Zara Sultana: “Bingham must step aside”
Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner: “This cronyism stinks”
Runnymede Trust even goes to court to get her appointment declared “unlawful”.
James O’Brien — ad nauseam
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