Amazes me that people are willing to carry water for the EU over this. Their behaviour is unjustifiable, especially for an entity which proclaims loudly and often about having a "rules based system".
The U.K. has done absolutely nothing wrong, entered into a variety of perfectly sensible arrangements with global pharmaceutical companies with complex, international supply chains - so some of our vaccines (Pfizer, essentially) come from EU manufacturing sites. There are no UK pfizer manufacturing sites - the EU sites serve a variety of countries. AZ, meanwhile, had dedicated EU sites, and dedicated UK sites.
The E.U., angry with AZ for low yields in the EU plants, is making threats to reduce our Pfizer supplies (effectively seizing supply we have bought and paid for, overriding private property rights), wants a share of our domestic AZ supply, whilst waging a disinformation campaign about the very vaccine they say they want.
Disgraceful doesn't even cover it. And to top it off, even if they took all of our remaining Pfizer allocation, it is a drop in the ocean for their needs, with hundreds of millions of citizens. It is pure spite.
And they have the absolute brass balls to proclaim themselves the moral, high-minded world power?