For the past few months, the government has been using every opportunity to justify Brexit. The vaccine approval process being one of those.
> The reporting around it has always sounded a bit nationalistic.
The press have certainly reported that it's British developed, and why not? I'd say they equally reported that the Moderna vaccine was developed by Turkish Germans/German Turks.
Matt Hancock, secretary of state for department of health and social care: "It is absolutely clear that because we’ve left the EU I was able to change the law so that the UK alone could make this authorisation decision. So because we’ve left the EU, we’ve been able to move faster."
See also Jacob monumental fucking bellend Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries who made similar claims.
If Rees-Mogg, Dorries, and Hancock are wrong, then demonstrate it.
The full summary is below. But the short answer is the regulators who did the work are saying it makes no difference