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, in keeping with an excerpt of his forthcoming memoirs printed within the Day by day Mail.
Within the spring of 2021, the EU and U.K. had been wrestling over the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines in a manufacturing facility situated in Leiden, close to the Dutch coast. The manufacturing facility was run by Halix and provided AstraZeneca vaccines contracted by each Britain and the EU.
Amid scarce provides of vaccine doses, European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen had threatened to chop off vaccine exports to nations with larger vaccination charges than the EU in addition to for nations 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 plot a plan to extract them by pressure. Senior military officers provided sending troopers to cross the English Channel clandestinely to grab the vaccines, in keeping with Johnson.
The plan was finally deserted as a result of invading a NATO ally could be “nuts,” Johnson explains in his memoirs.
