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comes as the UK and parts of Europe have entered back into lockdown in an attempt to curb another wave of the coronavirus. Mr Murray said he has a fear the UK and the rest of the world may have “spent everything we have in the reserves” on a virus which is not that dangerous. “It isn’t the virus we thought it was; it isn’t what we first thought it might be,” he said. He said the pandemic has revealed a clash between the economy and public health. “At this stage these are clearly competing values – the economy and the public health. One cannot take complete superiority over the other for an extended period of time,” Mr Murray said. “It seems to me with the second lockdowns we are in the stage of saying that the economy can continue to be a second order priority compared to the virus that is the main priority”. Mr Murray also highlighted the underlying inequality lockdowns reveal and exacerbate. “There can have been no greater inequality over the last months than a young person struggling in a flat they rent, crawling up the walls under lockdown, and older, better-off people actually having a kind of relaxing time”. “I think it’s going to have exacerbated generational divides, and income inequality divides. “Our societies cannot be on pause much longer. “This is a prelude to a total collapse if this goes on. Unless you have an economy, you don’t have anything else.”