Boris Johnson has said he doesn't want a second national coronavirus lockdown, saying he did not want to use it any more than Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent.
The Prime Minister said authorities were getting better at identifying and isolating local outbreaks and so a second UK-wide lockdown will hopefully not be needed.
However, he did add that the power power to order national action was held in reserve. "I can't abandon that tool any more than I would abandon a nuclear deterrent.
But it is like a nuclear deterrent, I certainly don't want to use it. And nor do I think we will be in that position again," he said.
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