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Downing Street wanted Oxford’s Covid vaccine to have a UK flag on it – 17 favourite responses

John Plunkett. Updated November 27th, 2020

It’s been reported by the Huffington Post that Downing Street wanted the coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University to be labelled with the UK flag.

Here’s a little bit of what the HuffPost reported (you can read the whole story here).

‘No 10′s newly-formed “Union unit”, tasked with fighting calls for Scottish independence and other campaigns to break up the UK, wanted injection kits to bear the flag.

‘It asked the government’s vaccine task force to insist manufacturers of the vaccine – developed by Britain’s top university alongside pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca – use the UK flag.

‘No 10 said there were no plans for the Union Jack to be on doses, but did not deny that the request – said by insiders to have strong backing from health secretary Matt Hancock and business secretary Alok Sharma – had been made.’

And here are all our favourite things people said about that.

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