Boris Johnson considered invading the Netherlands to seize Covid vaccines during the height of the pandemic, he has revealed. Writing in his memoirs, to be published next month, the former prime minister said he commissioned the Armed Forces to consider whether an aquatic raid on a warehouse in Leiden was possible.

Boris Johnson has revealed that a secret plot was devised to invade Holland and seize Covid vaccines. The former PM said he drew up plans for British special forces to step in after "futile" negotiations with EU chiefs over the release of five million vaccines.

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Johnson convened a meeting of senior military officials in March 2021 to discuss the plans, which he admitted were “nuts”.

Boris Johnson says he considered a proposal to send UK special forces into the Netherlands to grab Covid vaccines during a jabs export row with Brussels.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson believed he “ might have carked it ” when he was in intensive care with Covid without the “skills and experience” of his nurses, according to an extract from his memoir.

BORIS Johnson devised a secret plot to invade Holland and seize Covid vaccine supplies. In his new memoir Unleashed, the ex-PM details how after months of “futile” negotiations with EU chiefs for