The UK wanted to invade the Netherlands to seize Covid-19 vaccines

During his term and at the height of the epidemic, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson considered sending troops to the Netherlands to seize a stock of five million doses of the Covid vaccine. Johnson himself revealed this in his soon-to-be-published memoirs, excerpts of which were published for the first time in the British newspaper. Daily Mail.

Conflict over vaccines with the European Union

According to his account, in the spring of 2021, the European Union and the United Kingdom clashed over the production of Covid-19 vaccines. At the heart of the clash was a factory in Leiden, Netherlands, run by Halix, which supplied AstraZeneca vaccines commissioned by both London and Brussels. Production of doses for the European Union has been slow and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had announced He threatened To stop exporting vaccines to countries with higher vaccination rates than the European Union and to countries that have refused to share their supplies with the bloc. The UK met both criteria.

The secret plan

At that point, Johnson, as we read in his book “Unleashed,” gave orders to army commanders to develop a plan to get their hands on the doses produced in Leiden. One proposal was to send British soldiers to the Netherlands to raid the Halix factory. The plan was abandoned because invading a NATO ally would have been “madness,” as Johnson himself admitted.