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The Brexiteer insisted "Europe must leave the EU" and triumphantly declared that the "best decisions are taken by national governments acting in their national interest".
His comments come as Britain has given millions of people their first Covid jabs, while the EU is embroiled in an extraordinary row with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca - which worked
with Oxford University on its vaccines - over supply problems. Reform UK leader Mr Farage rounded on European health commissioner Stella Kyriakides, saying her threat to block exports of
jabs "tells you all you need to know about the way the bloc does business". Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the Brexiteer said: "By making a direct threat to the United
Kingdom, this Commissioner has done more than any other to show the nasty, vindictive and nationalistic side of the EU. "Everyone can now see its true colours. "This acts as a
brilliant justification of our country’s decision in 2016 to quit the EU." Mr Farage hailed Brexit Britain for steaming ahead with its rollout which has seen nearly seven million people
given their first dose and almost half a million receive their second. He said: "It goes to show how fleet of foot our nation can be now that it is free of the EU’s shackles.
"Compare this with the EU’s 27 states. "After a considerable amount of dithering and delay that is so characteristic of bureaucratic machines like the European Commission, the EU
is now trying desperately to catch up." READ MORE: BRITONS FURIOUS AT 'TYPICAL FOOT-STAMPING' EU AS VACCINE SPAT ERUPTS The Pfizer vaccine is manufactured in Europe but the
bulk of the AstraZeneca jab meant for the UK is made in Britain. AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot hit back at the EU, pointing out the UK had been quicker to sign a deal with them.
He told Italian newspaper La Repubblica: "So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced." Boris Johnson yesterday insisted he has
"total confidence" in the UK's supply of vaccines after the threat. The Prime Minister told a Downing Street press briefing that the delivery of vaccines was a
"multinational effort" and the UK would continue to work with European partners. He said: "All I would say is obviously we expect and hope that our EU friends will honour all
contracts and we will continue ... we fully expect that will happen ... and we continue to work with friends and partners in the EU, and indeed around the world, because the delivery of the
vaccine has been a multinational effort, and the delivery of the vaccine is multinational as well, because the virus knows no borders." Asked if he would urge the EU against controls on
exports of vaccines, Mr Johnson added: "The creation of these vaccines has been a wonderful example of multinational cooperation and one of the lessons the world has to learn from the
pandemic is to cooperate so I don't want to see restrictions on the supply of PPE (personal protective equipment), drugs or vaccines or their ingredients across borders."