Gordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine supplies

Former UK prime minister calls on western leaders to convene summit to address Africa's vaccine deficit

• Gordon Brown: the world is making billions of Covid vaccine doses, so why is Africa not getting them?

Gordon Brown has accused the EU of adopting a neocolonial approach" to the supply of Covid-19 vaccines and demanded rich western nations relinquish their stranglehold on pandemic treatments.

The former prime minister has called on Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Mario Draghi to convene a special summit to coincide with next month's UN general assembly in New York to address Africa's vaccine deficit.