(ANSA) - LONDON, SEPTEMBER 23 - The resistance of a part of the British to accept restrictions and obligations in the fight against the coronavirus - from social contacts to the use of masks - is also the result of the liberal or libertarian mentality, more widespread in the Kingdom than "many others Countries ".
This was argued today by conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Question Time, responding to a protest by Labor MP BenBradshaw on "why Germany or Italy" register at least official infections on the island without having adopted the new restrictive measures announced yesterday by Johnson with a pressing appeal to the individual "discipline" of compatriots.
"There is an important difference - Johnson argued - between our country and many others in the world since ours is a country that has always loved freedom. If we look at the history of the last 300 years, every advance, from freedom of speech to democracy, he virtually came from this country ".
"It is therefore very difficult - he concluded - to ask the British people to uniformly obey the directives required today".
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