From Crashed:
On February 3, speaking in Greenwich, the home of the Royal Naval College, [Boris] Johnson pitted Britain and its commitment to free trade not only against the EU, but against pandemic panic. "When there is a risk that new diseases such as coronavirus will trigger a panic and a desire for market segregation that go beyond what is medically rational, to the point of doing real and unnecessary economic damage, then at that moment humanity needs some government, somewhere, that is willing … to make the case ... for freedom of exchange. Some country ready to take off its Clark Kent spectacles and leap into the phone booth, and emerge with its cloak flowing as the supercharged champion of the right of the populations of the Earth to buy and sell freely among each other."
Wow, can you imagine actually saying that to an entire country?