Yeah, I'm not sure this is a smoking gun here.

1. as the OP said, the AstraZeneca vax is a DNA-based vaccine product delivered by adenovirus. It's not mRNA.
2. Many companies have been working on mRNA technology for decades. Why? Because if the idea can be made to work, the impacts would be transformative for medicine. mRNA is very easy to manipulate in the lab. You can order designer sequences cheaply, amplify it cheaply, modify it relatively easily, and you can harvest and isolate it easily as well. Working with proteins is far more difficult and time consuming. If you've heard about drugs like Humira which have gross multiple tens of billions in revenue, they're great examples of the problem. They're ridiculously expensive as a result of all of the issues working with proteins. So, if you could bypass all of that and use the human cells of the patient to make the protein you need, you could treat a huge number of diseases very efficiently. We're talking 1-10% of the cost of current treatments and without the months of drug manufacturing time. That's why so many in the medical system want this stuff to work.

The fact that Sunak invested in this technology is no different than investing in something like thorium or fusion energy in hopes of perfecting a transformative technology that would change humanity. I don't fault him for that at all. It's a risky investment, but something I could see venture capitalists specifically looking out for.

Now, the UK just committed to a new partnership with Moderna to create a new factory, research lab, and academic partnership with UK universities to train future medicinal chemists on mRNA technology. I've got plenty of questions about that one, especially digging in to Moderna's origin story (I don't trust it). That would be worth investigation of corrupt connection to the UK's new PM.

Edit: Just wanted to add Rishi Sunak's family's history of being somewhat nomadic. They go where the money and opportunities are. They don't really have any loyalty to any country they've lived it, and certainly not to Britain. I wouldn't believe that for one second that this man gives a damn about the average Brit whose family has been on that island for 1000 years. He's aligned with the WEF, made himself fabulously wealthy running in those circles. He's a man who should be carefully watched and his motives always examined, especially if you care about the UK and it remaining as an independent nation.

Yeah, I'm not sure this is a smoking gun here.

1. as the OP said, the AstraZeneca vax is a DNA-based vaccine product delivered by adenovirus. It's not mRNA.
2. Many companies have been working on mRNA technology for decades. Why? Because if the idea can be made to work, the impacts would be transformative for medicine. mRNA is very easy to manipulate in the lab. You can order designer sequences cheaply, amplify it cheaply, modify it relatively easily, and you can harvest and isolate it easily as well. Working with proteins is far more difficult and time consuming. If you've heard about drugs like Humira which have gross multiple tens of billions in revenue, they're great examples of the problem. They're ridiculously expensive as a result of all of the issues working with proteins. So, if you could bypass all of that and use the human cells of the patient to make the protein you need, you could treat a huge number of diseases very efficiently. We're talking 1-10% of the cost of current treatments and without the months of drug manufacturing time. That's why so many in the medical system want this stuff to work.

The fact that Sunak invested in this technology is no different than investing in something like thorium or fusion energy in hopes of perfecting a transformative technology that would change humanity. I don't fault him for that at all. It's a risky investment, but something I could see venture capitalists specifically looking out for.

Now, the UK just committed to a new partnership with Moderna to create a new factory, research lab, and academic partnership with UK universities to train future medicinal chemists on mRNA technology. I've got plenty of questions about that one, especially digging in to Moderna's origin story (I don't trust it). That would be worth investigation of corrupt connection to the UK's new PM.