G7 and NATO Summits Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

G7 and NATO Summits

Liam Byrne Excerpts
Wednesday 16th June 2021

(3 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I thank my right hon. Friend. I did see something this morning about some paper or other that means absolutely nothing to me. Our objective is to go forward with the road map and bring back the freedoms we love.

Liam Byrne Portrait Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill) (Lab)
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The original Atlantic charter made a commitment to banish from the world “fear and want”—curiously missing from the redraft—but the Prime Minister’s ambition to vaccinate the world by the end of 2022 is the right one. The IMF’s assessment of the deal done on Monday, however, is that two thirds of the grant financing needed to vaccinate the world is still missing—that is $23 billion. The question for the Prime Minister is: where is that money going to come from and when?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I think that the G7 and the west are making huge progress. These vaccines were only invented six months ago, or a little bit longer. We are making incredible progress in distributing them now. The ambition that we reconfirmed in Carbis Bay was to vaccinate the world by the end of next year, and that is a pretty rapid pace.