Not a Royalist by any means, but I must admit to finding it heartwarming that Prince William only had his jab today. In what other country would the future king have waited his turn and not been vaccinated earlier than others of his age?
To be fair to Bungling Boris, he did say 'mid Feb, then there's 2-3 weeks for it to build immunity'. He said this sort of thing twice to make it clear that the target was to vaccinate enough by mid-Feb to make early March a viable time to start easing restrictions.
Behind a paywall, so not sure exactly what it says - but reports in other papers do seem to talk about a shortage. The Mirror says 530,000 available on 30 December
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/covid-19-vaccine-shortages-reality-23247355
Took my father-in-law for his first vaccine jab today. He's 86. Pretty smooth, loads of 85-90 year old all given the same timeslot, so about 40 of them all queuing outside on a cold, windy morning. So, they all huddled together for warmth! Probably exposed themselves to more risk than they...