CAMPAIGNERS have vowed to fight government plans to sell off Britain’s flagship vaccine development centre, branding the move “short-sighted.” 

Established in 2018 to quickly create and test new vaccines, the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC), near Oxford, is set to open in 2022 having benefited from £200 million in public funding during its development. 

But reports now suggest that ministers want to hand the project over to the private sector despite the original plans for it to be a non-profit company.