{"id":1079833,"date":"2021-12-03T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1079833"},"modified":"2021-12-03T09:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:13:47","slug":"uk-govt-wont-mandate-jabs-as-long-as-people-keep-taking-the-booster-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-govt-wont-mandate-jabs-as-long-as-people-keep-taking-the-booster-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Govt Won\u2019t Mandate Jabs as Long as &#039;People Keep Taking the Booster\u2019, Says Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-govt-wont-mandate-jabs-as-long-as-people-keep-taking-the-booster-says-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1079833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/London-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A senior government and Conservative Party figure refused to rule out following Europe into mandatory vaccination or lockdowns for the unjabbed, only saying that the UK will not have to consider those measures as long as \u201cpeople keep on taking the booster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Party co-chairman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/ministers\/minister-without-portfolio--4\">Minister without Portfolio<\/a>&nbsp;Oliver Dowden has effectively said that as long as people take the booster when the government demands, the Johnson administration will not consider following European countries down the road of mandating vaccination or lockdowns for the unvaccinated, refusing several times to rule out the British government would never subject citizens to such oppressive measures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Responding to the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">Austria<\/a>&nbsp;had mandated the vaccine for all and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/02\/merkel-announces-restrictions-on-unvaccinated-vote-on-making-jabs-compulsory\/\">Germany<\/a> was introducing lockdowns for the unvaccinated only, Mr Dowden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkRADIO\/status\/1466695728588275712?s=20\">said<\/a> on talkRADIO on Friday morning: \u201cIt\u2019s not something that we want to do or plan to do in the United Kingdom. The reason why we don\u2019t want to and hopefully won\u2019t have to do any of that is because of the booster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo as long as people, when they get the call up, take that booster jab \u2014 it\u2019ll be open to everyone by the end of&nbsp; January \u2014 I\u2019m confident that\u2026 we\u2019ll be able to withstand even given the challenges of this new variant,\u201d Mr Dowden added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5384615384615\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tory chairman Oliver Dowden says mandatory jabs are &#8220;not something we want to do in the UK. We won&#8217;t have to\u2026as long as people get the booster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Julia asks why the Government won&#8217;t rule out ever mandating jabs.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuliaHB1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JuliaHB1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverDowden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OliverDowden<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PC2Es2udkH\">pic.twitter.com\/PC2Es2udkH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkRADIO\/status\/1466695728588275712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Giving the minister the opportunity to clarify that \u201chopefully won\u2019t have to\u201d in fact means the government would never go down the road of forced vaccinations or lockdowns for the unjabbed, talkRADIO host Julia Hartley-Brewer interrogated: \u201cWhat I heard Mr Dowden was, if you get the jab we won\u2019t have to force you to get the jab. You said \u2018it\u2019s not something we want to do or plan to do\u2019 or \u2018hopefully won\u2019t have to do\u2019. There a really simple answer to this: \u2018This is wrong and we will never do it.\u2019 Why won\u2019t you say that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not agree in principle\u2026 with mandating vaccines, forcing people to have vaccines\u2026 the reason why we won\u2019t have to contemplate those sorts of decisions is because of the efficacy of the vaccine and booster,\u201d Dowden said.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative Party co-chairman for the second time avoided ruling out going down the path of Austria and Germany when pressed again, only responding: \u201cI disagree with it profoundly in principle and I\u2019ve also said to you we also have the tools to prevent us ever having to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questioned a third time, Dowden again refused to rule out the Conservative-led government ever adopting such drastic procedures, merely saying repeating: \u201cWe have to keep in this world by making sure people keep on taking the booster. As long as we keep on doing that, we avoid having to contemplate any of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5316455696203\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Merkel Announces Restrictions on Unvaccinated, Vote on Making Jabs Compulsory <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rsS1N8hqkN\">https:\/\/t.co\/rsS1N8hqkN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1466459649247432709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>This is not the first time a senior figure in Boris Johnson\u2019s government effectively said that Britons will not be subject to further restrictions as long as they do what they are told.<\/p>\n<p>On October 20th, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that in order to \u201ckeep your freedoms\u201d, Britons must be fully vaccinated as well as boosters because&nbsp;\u201ccovid vaccine reduces materially over time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Javid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/20\/no-lockdown-for-now-govt-britons-to-behave-if-they-want-to-keep-freedoms\/\">said<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>\u2026please [book your vaccination]\u2026 not just to save lives, but to keep your freedoms too\u2026 And if we want to secure these freedoms for the long-term, the best thing we can do is to come forward once again when that moment comes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month Austria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">announced<\/a> that from February 2022, citizens will need to be vaccinated or face fines and even prison. This week, the outgoing chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/02\/merkel-announces-restrictions-on-unvaccinated-vote-on-making-jabs-compulsory\/\">announced<\/a> effectively s lockdown on the unvaccinated, with the country\u2019s parliament set to vote on making vaccination against the Chinese virus mandatory.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8198757763975\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two More Years: British Government Places COVID Booster Orders for 2022 and 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gkgHS3F7Yu\">https:\/\/t.co\/gkgHS3F7Yu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1466449078439473155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior government and Conservative Party figure refused to rule out following Europe into mandatory vaccination or lockdowns for the unjabbed, only saying that the UK will not have to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}