Matt Hancock claims he was ridiculed in Westminster for believing in the vaccine and recounts weeping on live TV the day the first doses were administered. The former health secretary says in his diaries that, in the months before the first vaccine was approved, he faced opposition from ‘sceptics’, including inside No10. But on December 1 the UK became the first country in the Western world to authorise the Pfizer and BioNTech jab.
