New travel restrictions for Spain effective 23.11

Probably wouldnt be sat with a healthy dose of covid-19 vaccination in our bodies if we had not voted "leave", and looking at the prospect of being able to travel with a degree of safety.

Even when UK was an EU Member, it had the right to use a delegated power to start its own vaccination programme. This was confirmed by Dr June Raine, Head of MHRA at the start of December 2020. The 'couldn't have gone solo if we had still been in EU' is a myth.

Steve

I think the operative word in my post is "Probably"

def...almost certainly; as far as one knows or can tell

But that "operative word" is simply wrong isn't it? There's no "almost certainly" or "as far as one knows" as is clear from  Steve's more knowledgeable post. Even Gavin Williamson was forced to admit that the "better off out" line was false in this case.

We will never know if being in would have made an appreciable differance to going it alone or not, remember, there was a lot of pressure from the opposition to "not go it alone",  which could have held a much greater sway if we had been in the EU, being out meant the government had a much easier task to bat aside any pressure from the EU/Opposition and certainly with respect to controlling covid-19, making travel a very real possibility later this year, and of course all the NHS benefits etc that go with it .

The European Commission were proposing a central procurement process for purchasing vaccines as an imperative back in October. If the UK was not leaving the EU it may have chosen to follow this strategy - who knows? As always with Brexit issues, you could call it either way.

Probably = in all likelihood

Possibly = something that might happen

So, to suggest that UK in all likelihood would not have been able to pursue its own vaccination programme is simply wrong, because UK had a pre-existing power that was not contingent upon any other event

It is possible that a delay in implementing the vaccination programme may have caused you orme to become infcted with COVID, but that is only speculation

Steve