{"id":121853,"date":"2023-12-04T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=121853"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:29:11","slug":"boris-johnson-asked-spies-to-plan-raid-on-dutch-covid-vaccine-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/politics\/boris-johnson-asked-spies-to-plan-raid-on-dutch-covid-vaccine-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson asked spies to plan raid on Dutch Covid vaccine factory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boris Johnson asked spies to plan raids on a Dutch factory making Covid vaccines after the EU \u201cstole\u201d UK doses, it has been claimed.<\/p>\n

Diplomatic sources said the then-Prime Minister was \u201cenraged\u201d after the EU blocked the export of millions of doses of AstraZeneca vaccines in March 2021.<\/p>\n

It has been reported that Mr Johnson went so far as to ask security services to investigate \u201cmilitary options\u201d for retrieving the doses from the factory in Leiden in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

He suggested a covert raid to seize the vaccines which had been bought by the UK Government.<\/p>\n

The idea was abandoned after diplomats warned it could further ruin relations with the EU as well as jeopardise vaccine supply from other European factories.<\/p>\n

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Boris Johnson will appear before the Covid Inquiry this week and has already given written evidence to make his frustration with Brussels\u2019s actions clear.<\/p>\n

One diplomatic source told the Mail: \u201cThe EU had sequestered five million doses. Of course the PM was enraged \u2013 they were putting British lives at risk to make a political point and distract from their own failings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe ordered officials to look at all options for responding, and that did include asking the security services to look at whether there were any options for physically going and taking the vaccines from the Netherlands and bringing them here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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