We must call a truce in the vax war with Europe – the sooner we all have vaccination passports, the better

It is time to declare a truce, get on with vaxing all Europeans (including the Brits) and let us fly again to where a warm welcome awaits

‘My twice-jabbed left arm is a witness to that export policy Brussels defended in contrast to our vaccine nationalism’ (AP)

Can we declare a truce in the vax war with Europe? This week France has been vaccinating up to 400,000 people a day, and Germany nearly 700,000. France is bringing on-stream two major new dedicated vaccine production centres, one to produce the Pfizer vaccine and one to make Moderna vaccines.

When fully up and running next month they will churn out 1 million doses a day. France will soon be jabbing a million people a day, from a population that includes around 300,000 British expats. In recent days, France has passed the 10 million mark for vaccinations.

That’s not as good as Britain, which is the runaway winner today in the European vaccines contest. But in two or three months, as in France’s favourite fable of the tortoise and the hare, France will have caught up – as will most other EU member states, as well as countries such as Switzerland and Norway.