A few facts have emerged today about the contract between Astra Zeneca and the EU which regards Britain as part of the EU. That might have been the case prior to the 1 January but isn't true now. The terms of any contract are within the walls of the agreed document. Were the UK consulted before the contract was signed? I doubt it.

Surely if the UK, as a theoretical Party to the contract, didn't agree to the terms then we should have been excluded from it meaning the EU's claims that they have a right to control vaccine manufactured in the UK can't be correct. Additionally the EU/AZ contract requires AZ to make their reasonable best efforts to deliver X number of doses but without specificity that total is meaningless. In short the EU are looking for ways to divert attention away from a foul up of their own making.