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‘We’re a much better country’ – 7 favourite responses to Gavin Williamson’s vaccine boast

John Plunkett. Updated December 3rd, 2020

A day after Tory MPs were were not entirely truthful by suggesting that Brexit helped secure the Covid-19 vaccine, along comes so-called education secretary Gavin Williamson.

Here’s his response to LBC presenter Nick Ferrari asking him why the UK got regulatory approval for the eagerly-awaited vaccine before Europe and the US.

And his response went viral because, well, watch.

“I just reckon we’ve got the very best people in this country and we’ve obviously got the best medical regulators. Much better than the French/Belgians/Americans have. That doesn’t surprise me at all because we’re a much better country than every single one.”

No doubt the UK does have amazing scientists (and indeed regulators) but it struck people as a slightly … schoolboy of putting it.

Not unlike the time, you may recall, that as foreign secretary Williamson told Russia to ‘go away and shut up’.

There’s always the possibility he was joking, of course, but that would suggest previously unidentified depths. Here are our 7 favourite things people said about it.

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We’re not entirely sure these two comments were responses to what Williamson said on LBC or to another of his media appearances today. Still, evergreen.

This.

And this.

To conclude …

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Source @LBC