Britain will help the EU fix its jab supply issue, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi has revealed.
After Brussels backed down on its threat to block vaccine supplies at the border, Mr Zahawi said the focus has moved to collaboration with the EU, reported The Sunday Telegraph.
The EU promised to allow supplies from Pfizer s Belgium factory to reach the UK and brought an end to escalating tensions on Saturday.
During two phone calls just 30 minutes apart, the Prime Minister made European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen abandon the nuclear option of imposing a hard border on Northern Ireland to prevent them reaching the UK.
The UK and the European Union have been locked in a dispute over the distribution of a vaccine manufactured by the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and Oxford.
Exclusive: Britain ready to help out EU on Covid vaccines
Nadhim Zahawi says focus now on collaboration with bloc, adding that Britain has helped Brussels with production problems
30 January 2021 • 9:30pm
Nadhim Zahawi said the UK and EU have to be united against the common enemy of Covid
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Britain stands ready to help the EU with its vaccination crisis, the vaccines minister said after Brussels abandoned its threat to block supplies at the border.
In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Nadhim Zahawi said the focus is now on collaboration with the EU, adding that Britain has gone out of our way to help Brussels with its production problems and will continue to do so .