Understanding, not judgment, should shape our response to those who remain unjabbed | John Harris

The start of the coming year will be defined by the UK's vaccination gap, but the issue is more complex than you think

Amid rocketing Covid infection rates, rising hospitalisation numbers and test shortages, the opening weeks of 2022 are going to be defined by the UK's vaccine gap.

According to the latest official figures, 91% of people aged over 18 in the UK have had at least one Covid jab, 88% have received two and 64% have had their third. But the 9% who have yet to be vaccinated at all accounts for about five million people, whose preponderance among those now being hospitalised is clearly a huge problem.