So your argument is not that we couldn't have funded, tested, approved, and distributed the vaccine had we still been in the EU (we actually were at that moment), but that, as Rees Mogg tried to evasively spout when he was also corrected by fact-checkers from even with Tory newspapers and the Tory BBC, we wouldn't have gone it alone because, in some twilight world where we never the left the EU, the government wouldn't have done so, even though they could have. That's a bit like saying we would have funded the regions at the same rate and more as they were while we were in the EU (and the Brexiteers promised us they would do) if we were still in the EU, but we chose not to. Oh, I see what you mean... Here, just to remind you again, we COULD have funded, developed, tested, approved, and distributed the vaccine independently of the EU while still in it had we chosen to do so, regardless of our actual status at the time (which was that we were officially still in). The rest of your argument is just hypothetical speculating, akin to the line that we didn't have £350m a week extra to spend on the NHS all along but chose not to (or Osbourne did) while we were still in the EU, but had to give it to Brussels instead. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730
Tory rapist-protector is as oily, greasy, and venal as the rest of them. And this being interviewed by Tory glove-puppet Fawner Kuenssberg
