UK shares roar ahead of their continental peers as Covid-19 vaccine rollout hits its targets 

Peter Brown at Baggot Asset Management said countries with the fastest vaccine rollouts will be the main beneficiaries of the economic rebound. Picture: iStock

UK shares roared ahead of their continental peers after Britain said it had vaccinated over 15m people, underlining the importance of the rollouts of vaccines in boosting the worst-hit Covid-19 economies.     

Analysts are now talking about the potential for the British economy — which suffered one of the worst death tolls and one of the largest economic contractions of the wealthiest nations last year — to open up and rebound more quickly as its vaccine programme gathers pace.