The prime minister has said today that it would be “impossible” to rule out future lockdown restrictions.

Quizzed earlier today by fellow Conservative MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies on GB News, Boris Johnson said he could not rule out such a policy in reaction to Coronavirus.

“I want to avoid any such thing ever happening again and I can’t rule out something, I can’t say we wouldn’t be forced to do non-pharmaceutical interventions again of the kind we did,” he explained.
“I think it would be irresponsible of any leader in any democracy to say that they’re going to rule out something that could save life.

“I believe the things we did saved lives. I’ve got to be absolutely frank with you, there could be a new variant more deadly, there could be a variant that affects children badly, that we really need to contain, I’m not going to take any options off the table. But I don’t think it will happen.

“I think we are now in the phase where the virus is losing its potency overall and we’ve got a massively vaccinated UK population.”