To throw a bone to Varian (as I type that, I can sense hackles rising across Gransnet!), I wonder just how different vaccine rollout would have been had we continued a "one foot in, one foot out" policy with the EU? It's not an unusual state-of-affairs, practiced by principally by three countries (Denmark, the Netherlands, France... &, formerly, the UK), but to small degrees by others. If you grew up in Greenland or Tahiti, you'll probably have an EU country's passport; but, because your territory is semi-autonomous (picking & choosing which EU rules to follow), you'll have a hard time exercising your EU rights there. However, if you move to your "home nation", or visit any EU country, your rights are the same as anyone else's from the EU. France has 12 overseas territories (one uninhabited). Six lie OUTSIDE the EU (including French Polynesia & a Caribbean island), and six lie INSIDE the EU (including a few more Caribbean islands & a sizeable chunk of jungle, 4 times the size of Wales, bordering Brazil (yes, full EU laws in South America)). Had the referenda of the Home Nations and overseas territories been counted separately, England and Wales would've left the EU, while Scotland, Northern Ireland & GIBRALTAR (plus, however UK overseas territories voted, since France shows us you don't have to be "all-in" or "all-out") would have remained. That means English people wouldn't have been subject to EU rules at home, but could've take full benefit to get a job and health coverage in Spain. Under such a scenario, does anyone honestly think the UK's - & especially wee Gibraltar's - vaccine rollout would've been notably handicapped? I think it's probably now time for me to duck and cover, where've Varian flees to, from the fray.