Tue Apr 12, 2022 – 4:36 pm EDT
WESTMINSTER, United Kingdom (LifeSiteNews) – Days after U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to rule out future “pandemic” lockdowns, the Metropolitan Police have served Johnson, his wife, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak with fines for having attended illegal parties during a 2020 lockdown.
In an interview with recently formed news outlet GB News on April 8, Johnson refused to rule out enacting another lockdown should the country be hit by a “pandemic.”
“I can’t rule out, I can’t say we wouldn’t be forced to do non-pharmaceutical interventions again of the kind we did,” said Johnson.
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Defending the previous lockdowns as having “saved lives,” Johnson called it “irresponsible of any leader in any democracy to say that they are going to rule out something that can save lives.”
Suggesting that “there could be a new variant more deadly, there could be a variant that affects children, that we really need to contain,” Johnson said he was “not going to take any options off the table.”
“I don’t think it will happen,” he added, although in summer 2020 Johnson had likened another lockdown to using a “nuclear deterrent,”
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