Re: @Spaceman9
Well, we're currently (Apr 6th 2022) behind: Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, France, Sweden - just to list the EU countries we're lagging behind.
We're at 73.6% double jabbed, the EU as a whole is at 73.2%.
That's not a substantial difference - but the trend is that the EU has narrowed that gap - i.e. their performance has been better - for a while now.
The EU paid $2.15/dose initially, whilst the UK paid about $3/dose.
There is no basis at all to say that our vaccine programme is/was better than the EU... it's on a par, it started a few weeks earlier, and we paid significantly more as a result.
"And data shows that most developed economies are now at ~3% above pre pandemic trade, except for Britain"
This will be interesting to keep an eye on.
Yes it will, I wonder what you think will change this? We are still suffering significantly as a result of our world leading trade barriers, which we still haven't implemented. And yet our trade deficit continues to grow.
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