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Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson thought-about sending troops to the Netherlands to grab a provide of 5 million doses of Covid vaccines held in Leiden, based on an excerpt of his forthcoming memoirs revealed within the Daily Mail.
In the spring of 2021, the EU and U.K. had been wrestling over the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines in a manufacturing facility positioned in Leiden, close to the Dutch coast. The manufacturing facility was run by Halix and equipped AstraZeneca vaccines contracted by each Britain and the EU.
Amid scarce provides of vaccine doses, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had threatened to chop off vaccine exports to international locations with greater vaccination charges than the EU in addition to for international locations that refused to share their very own vaccine provides with the bloc — each of which standards utilized to the U.K. on the time.
In his memoirs, titled “Unleashed,” Johnson explains how after two “futile” months of negotiations with the EU to launch the doses he demanded the British armed forces to plan a plan to extract them by pressure. Senior military officers provided sending troopers to cross the English Channel clandestinely to grab the vaccines, based on Johnson.
The plan was in the end deserted as a result of invading a NATO ally could be “nuts,” Johnson explains in his memoirs.
