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Andrew Pierce insisted the European Union has been "behaving outrageously" towards the UK because of its repeated threats to block the vaccine. The EU and Britain have been at
loggerheads for months as the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine across the bloc trails behind the UK. The Good Morning Britain contributor told the programme: "The European Union
has made an utter pig's ear from beginning to end of the whole vaccine. Health minister Helen Whately told Sky News: "Of course there has been speculation about this. "One
thing I think we can do is remind the European Union of the commitments they have made, and particularly Ursula von der Leyen, the EU president, made a commitment to the Prime Minister that
the EU wouldn't block companies from fulfilling their contractual obligations to supply vaccinations and that the EU must absolutely stand by that commitment. "Vaccine nationalism,
this kind of speculation and threat about limiting supply, doesn't do anybody any good. "What's important is that we work together with the European Union, and in fact around
the world with other countries, to maximise the supply and the production of vaccine. Mr Wallace told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme: "The European Union will know that
the rest of the world is looking at the commission at how it conducts itself. "If contracts and undertakings get broken that is a very damaging thing to happen for a trading bloc which
prides itself on the rule of law. "It would be counterproductive because the one thing we know about vaccine production and manufacturing is that it is collaborative. "How the
vaccine is manufactured involves countries not just in Europe, not just the United Kingdom, but even further afield in such places as India. "If we start to unpick that, if the
commission were to start to do that, I think they would undermine not only their citizens' chances of having a proper vaccine programme, but also many other countries around the world
with the reputational damage to the EU, I think, they would find very hard to change over the short-term."