“They’re trying to excuse their own woeful performance to their citizens by attempting to smear the UK.”
He added: “It actually reinforces how vulnerable they are by the fact they’re having to make up such outrageous lies to deflect criticism of how they’ve handled the vaccine procurement and rollout.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson also condemned the outrageous attempts from Brussels to discredit Britain’s roaring vaccines success.
But European Council President Mr Michel was still refusing to apologise for the misleading slur even though officials close to him conceded their boss had got it horribly wrong.
And it came as Brussels threatened a blanket ban on all pharmaceutical firms wanting to send their vaccines outside of the bloc.
A senior EU diplomat in London was summoned to the British foreign ministry on Wednesday as the two sides traded barbs over COVID-19 vaccines, the latest in a series of disputes that bode ill for post-Brexit cooperation.