AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, developed by scientists from the prestigious Oxford University, was meant to be a post-Brexit success story.
Not only was it supposed to be a shining example of British ingenuity which would banish the devastating Covid pandemic and sentence lockdowns to history, it was also meant to demonstrate the UK’s generosity in the global crisis, with the jab sold at cost, not for profit.
Ministers were so confident in its success that then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock privately labelled