The UK's contract was better written, just not in the way the EU tried to spin it where the UK were supposedly ahead of them in the queue and were stealing thei

The UK's contract was better written, just not in the way the EU tried to spin it where the UK were supposedly ahead of them in the queue and were stealing their doses (though there was a clause stopping UK-produced doses being diverted elsewhere). It had a legally-binding clause with teeth and penalties attached requiring AstraZeneca to give the UK government accurate advance notice of how much vaccine they could actually deliver, and the entire UK vaccination program was based on those actual yields rather than the original amounts in the contract. As far as I can tell, there was no requirement that they made any more than "best efforts" to fulfil the original contractual delivery time, and they're apparently fairly behind schedule here too - it's just you wouldn't realize that because all the vaccine planning was based on AZ's actual capacity once they had full-scale production up and running.