How will Boris respond to the EU's vaccine threats?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:21.5 | GINSBERG. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics |
| 0:29.4 | Podcast. I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Forsy and Katie Balls. Over the weekend, |
| 0:34.9 | the row with the EU over vaccine exports seems to have hoted up. |
| 0:39.0 | Katie, can you update us on what's happened? |
| 0:41.3 | So after Ursula von der Leyen last week suggested that the EU would consider an export ban |
| 0:46.6 | to the UK as a country that already has plenty of vaccine supply in their view, we've had |
| 0:52.7 | a further escalation over the weekend. |
| 0:54.9 | You had an EU officials say to Reuters, the news agency that ultimately they were considering |
| 1:00.2 | an export ban when it comes to AstraZeneca supplies. This involves a Dutch plant to the UK. |
| 1:06.5 | I think if you delve a bit deeper, no final decision on this is going to be made until Thursday |
| 1:10.5 | when EU leaders are meeting to discuss this, but the mood music is not particularly positive. |
| 1:15.8 | Now, of course, a bit of this is provocation or, you know, playing to domestic audiences. |
| 1:20.7 | I think it's in the EU's interest to look like they are taking a tough stance when it comes |
| 1:24.9 | to vaccines for the bloc, particularly because they're under so much |
| 1:29.0 | criticism for member states. However, I think there is a sense that this could head in the wrong |
| 1:33.5 | direction for the UK government. And you heard over the weekend, Ben Wallace is the |
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