Vaccines: Brexit Britain Willing to Help Bail Out Failing EU 31 Jan 2021 The British government is willing to “move on” from the European Union’s aborted effort to impose a hard border between EU Ireland and British Northern Ireland and help Brussels overcome its vaccine failures. Britain has far outperformed the European Union on vaccines after opting out joint procurement — a decision heavily criticised by EU loyalists and some supposed health experts when it was made — with the bloc taking much longer to approve, order, and administer inoculations. It has had particular difficulty with the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which it has only just approved, due to problems at EU plants, and has been demanding UK-made doses of the vaccine are diverted to it and threatening to seize UK-purchased vaccines made in the EU to make up the shortfall.