Foreign secretary Dominic Raab answers questions from MPs
Matt Hancock spoke out against vaccine “protectionism” today after the EU threatened to tighten rules on exports of jabs produced in the bloc.
The health secretary said the intervention was “not the right approach in a pandemic”, following similar remarks from vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi and other Tory MPs. David Jones, a member of the hardline European Research Group, had a particularly harsh take, accusing Brussels of being “childish and spiteful”.
Meanwhile, Britain’s port chiefs warned Boris Johnson’s government that new border infrastructure needed to manage post-Brexit bureaucracy is still not up to scratch because of inadequate funding.
It comes as the leading financial analysts at Moody’s said the UK economy is set to become “significantly smaller” because of the Brexit trade deal – pointing to “significant negative consequences” ahead because of all the new barriers to trade.
