Boris Johnson considered raiding Dutch warehouse over vaccines row – memoir

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson considered launching an “aquatic raid” on a warehouse in the Netherlands to retrieve Covid vaccine doses amid a row with Europe, according to an extract from his memoir.

Mr Johnson convened a meeting of senior military officials in March 2021 to discuss the plans, which he admitted were “nuts”, according to an extract from his Unleashed book published in the Daily Mail.

At the time, the AstraZeneca vaccine was at the heart of a cross-Channel row over exports...