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<\/source><\/p>\nThe Good Morning Britain presenter took to Twitter on Saturday to launch a stunning attack on Brussels. Mr Morgan blasted the EU’s “shocking antics” after it moved to override part of the Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland to block jabs entering the UK – which has sparked outrage from across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n
The former newspaper editor tweeted: “Congrats to the EU on finally uniting Britain about Brexit.<\/p>\n
“With their shocking antics over vaccines, they’ve managed to achieve the impossible and make us all – Leavers AND Remainers – think they’re a bunch of selfish, ruthless, arrogant twerps.”<\/p>\n
But former Conservative MP Ms Soubry insisted the UK’s vaccine success – which has seen more than 8.3 million people receive their first shot and almost half a million get their second – was “nothing to do with Brexit”.<\/p>\n
She fumed: “Reckon I speak for a fair few million … we never said the #EU was perfect indeed many of us believed it needed reforming but we believed we were considerably better off in it than out of it.<\/p>\n
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“And negotiating our own #CovidVaccine deals was nothing to do with #Brexit.”<\/p>\n
Ms Soubry’s tweet prompted the GMB host to point out she would be blaming Brexit if the UK was as slow as the EU with its rollout.<\/p>\n
Mr Morgan said: “If the situation was reversed and the EU was performing like the UK on its vaccine roll-out, and we were performing as badly as the EU is… then you would definitely be blaming Brexit.”<\/p>\n
The EU has been criticised over its vaccine rollout and is facing supply issues.<\/p>\n
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Brussels on Friday night triggered Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol to control the movement of coronavirus jabs.<\/p>\n
But a huge backlash from London, Dublin and Belfast forced the bloc to backtrack on the extraordinary move.<\/p>\n
The EU’s actions have even attracted criticism from the likes of arch-Remainer Tony Blair.<\/p>\n
The former prime minister told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday it was “a very foolish thing to do”.<\/p>\n
DON’T MISS<\/strong> Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his “grave concern” to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen ahead of the bloc’s embarrassing U-turn.<\/p>\n Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said on Saturday that the EU recognises it “made a mistake”.<\/p>\n He said: “I think the EU recognises that they made a mistake in triggering Article 16, which would have meant the re-imposition of a border on the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n “I’ve spoken to the European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic about this and we both agreed that we need a reset, that we need to put the people of Northern Ireland first.”<\/p>\n Mr Gove said that the Government was “confident that we can proceed with our vaccine programmes exactly as planned” after talks between Mr Johnson and Ms von der Leyen.<\/p>\n The Cabinet minister added the UK is “fully on course” to hit its target of vaccinating the 15 million most vulnerable individuals by mid-February<\/p>\n The EU attempted to justify the drastic measure as being needed to prevent Northern Ireland being used as a back door to move coronavirus vaccines from the bloc into the UK, “due to a lack of supply threatening to disturb the orderly implementation of the vaccination campaigns in the member states”.<\/p>\n
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