It's interesting how the level of statistical analysis seems to change, depending on what the agenda is.
Here, we can't know if the vaccines were effective because there's not been enough prospective double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trials - even though on a timeline it can clearly be seen that as vaccine uptake goes up, hospitalisations and deaths go down.
But here, just excess deaths is enough. We don't need to drill down and divide into vaccinated and un-vaccinated people, or take into account that the UK population is both growing and ageing, or that life expectancy in the UK is increasing slower over the past decades than the other rich European countries, or that the leading cause of excess deaths in 2022 were recorded as heart disease, diabetes and liver problems, exacerbated by the healthcare situation during the pandemic (both from
https://archive.ph/FR0eY).
Nope, none of that is mentioned, just the equivocation that it must be the covid vaccine.