Critic should look at vaccination success

In response to your anonymous correspondent (Viewpoint, April 29) having a rant about Boris, I would like to make the following comments to him/ her.

The civil war in Downing Street as he/she puts it is in fact with the BBC holier-thanthou political reporters (one in particular, the BBC resident gloom-meister) and the general media, who are jumping up and down with glee with their ‘leaks’.

The truth of the matter is that none of them can accept the fact that the government have done so well with the vaccinations programme.

As a former Remainer, having reflected on the total shambles regarding the EU countries with their totally inefficient vaccination programmes I am now very grateful for Brexit and that we are now leading the way in the world with such a massive rollout.

If your correspondent had watched the press briefing from Downing Street on Tuesday, Mr Hancock announced the good news that the Government have now ordered a further 60 million doses for autumn boosters jabs.

Your correspondent also notes that the Government is lacking in actions.

Perhaps he/she is not aware that last year, Matt Hancock rejected the EU trying to bully us to join their vaccination ordering process, and thankfully decided we would go it alone by ordering many millions of vaccinations from several different pharmaceutical companies well before MHRA approval.

It was a huge gamble but paid off massively.

Had Mr Hancock not made these decisions we would now be in a very different place.

Can I also remind your Anon that in April 2020, Boris nearly died from Covid and took a while to recover whilst his cohorts in messrs Raab and Hancock took the reins.

The rollout and success of the massive vaccination programme is a combined effort

of Kate Bingham, Nadhim Zahawi, the NHS, the army, pharmacies and all volunteers, all contributing their bit.

He/she asks the question: do we have the politicians we deserve?

Well an 80-seat majority at the 2019 General Election would indicate that the UK would say yes.

I shudder to think what the alternative would have been throughout the pandemic.

Not since the Second World War has a Government had such a difficult health and economic crisis to deal with, as we look to coming out the other side.

PAMELA SMITH Shifford Crescent

Maidenhead