Boris Johnson was uncharacteristically modest about the UK becoming the first western country to authorize a Covid-19 vaccine.
He had been asked by the Sun newspaper if Britain's speedy authorization process was a "Brexit dividend" - a result of being free of EU rules.
The Prime Minster said he ought to be diplomatic and not rise to the question, preferring instead to say it was simply great news for everyone that a Vaccine had been authorised at all.
Beside him at the Downing Street news conference Dr Jonathan Van Tam said it was wonderful that two scientists of Turkish heritage had developed a vaccine in Germany, with US financial backing, then undertaken clinical trials in a number of countries, using people of all ages, and that the UK