{"id":1426921,"date":"2022-04-09T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T18:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426921"},"modified":"2022-04-09T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T18:14:54","slug":"return-of-rona-boris-johnson-refuses-to-rule-out-another-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/return-of-rona-boris-johnson-refuses-to-rule-out-another-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of Rona? Boris Johnson Refuses to Rule Out Another Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Freturn-of-rona-boris-johnson-refuses-to-rule-out-another-lockdown%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=1426921&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Months after the world has seemingly moved on from the Chinese coronavirus, Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared that he will not rule out another lockdown being imposed on the British public.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the damage done to the economy and the impact on the mental and physical health of the public, the British government will keep the option of locking down the country once again, the Prime Minister said.<\/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>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.uk\/news\/boris-johnson-refuses-to-rule-out-another-lockdown-in-exclusive-gb-news-interview\/267441\">interview<\/a> with Conservative MPs Phillip Davies and Esther McVey on GB News on Friday, Mr Johnson said: \u201cI want to avoid any such thing ever happening again and I can\u2019t rule out something, I can\u2019t say we wouldn\u2019t be forced to do non-pharmaceutical interventions again of the kind we did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be irresponsible of any leader in any democracy to say that they\u2019re going to rule out something that could save life, and I believe the things we did saved lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his rationale, Mr Johnson said that a \u201cnew variant\u201d could emerge, warning that there could be a strain of the Chinese coronavirus that impacts children more than previous mutations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to take any options off the table, but I don\u2019t think it will happen. We\u2019re now in the phase, and this is the view of all the advisers I talk to, where the virus is losing its potency overall and we\u2019ve got a massively vaccinated UK population,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 \u2018I\u2019m not going to take any options off the table.\u2019 \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude45\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Boris Johnson refuses to rule out the prospect of another lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview in full, exclusively on GB News, on Saturday Selection from 10am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wa58gYGZwF\">https:\/\/t.co\/Wa58gYGZwF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EW2UVtwXfz\">pic.twitter.com\/EW2UVtwXfz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GB News (@GBNEWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GBNEWS\/status\/1512306021473132545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement has drawn considerable backlash among the conservative-leaning commentariat in the United Kingdom, particularly in light of members of Mr Johnson\u2019s own government being fined by the Metropolitan Police for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/29\/uk-police-fine-20-people-for-downing-street-partygate-lockdown-violations\/\">violating their own lockdown rules<\/a> in a series of boozy bashes held in Downing Street, home to the Prime Minister\u2019s official residence.<\/p>\n<p>Commentator Dominique Samuels <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DominiqueTaegon\/status\/1512340313003773954\">said<\/a>: \u201cI actually dare him to try and impose that on the British people again after he and his staff broke the very rules they forced us all to follow. I dare him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actor turned Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LozzaFox\/status\/1512370318786142212\">added<\/a>: \u201cDidn\u2019t comply last time. Wouldn\u2019t comply if the hypocritical little toad tried it again. It would be amusing to see him try though.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAll he would achieve is waking more people up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Prime Minister attempted to use children as one of the potential reasons for another lockdown, youngsters are being revealed to have potentially been some of the principle victims of previous lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Health Service (NHS), mental health problems soared among children in 2021 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/05\/cost-of-lockdown-record-number-of-children-seeking-treatment-for-severe-mental-health-issues\/\">one in six children<\/a> in England, compared to one in nine in the pre-lockdown year of 2017. Girls between the ages of 11 and 16-years-old were impacted the most.<\/p>\n<p>Warnings about the impact on children of diminished social contact and the climate of fear are longstanding, with a 2021 report finding that the number of pre-teens committing self-harm had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/16\/number-children-self-harming-doubles-six-years\/\">doubled<\/a> over six years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Locked-in Trauma\u2019: Young Children Having Panic Attacks After Playdates <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1V50cjxyfb\">https:\/\/t.co\/1V50cjxyfb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1407602322163654660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months after the world has seemingly moved on from the Chinese coronavirus, Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared that he will not rule out another lockdown being imposed on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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-1426921","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\/1426921","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426921\/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=1426921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}