With the recent detection of a more infectious strain of mpox in the UK, how worried are you about the possibility of another pandemic? Would the country ever accept another lockdown?
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00:00Yes, I do. If the circumstances were that severe, I think they would. And I hope they
00:14would. I know the ramifications are absolutely massive.
00:17I don't think you ever know when it's going to happen. I mean, we've had things since
00:21the plague, if it goes back to that. So you do get these things coming up all the time.
00:27I think you've just got to take precautions and that's it. You can't worry about it. You'd
00:32die worrying otherwise, wouldn't you?
00:35My nephew's a doctor of infectious diseases and he actually was one of the small group
00:44that saved Boris, and that's the truth. He was. He never got mentioned in dispatches
00:50and he's not bothered about it.
00:51I mean, people criticise what was done, but who knew what to do? I mean, everybody would
00:57have made mistakes, I think, on that.