Boris Johnson has admitted there were things the government "could have done differently" in its handling of the coronavirus crisis.
In a marked shift in tone, the Prime Minister conceded that lessons could be learned from the early stages of the pandemic. And he admitted that the government did not "understand [the virus] in the way that we would have liked in the first few weeks and months." Mr Johnson told BBC News: "Maybe there were things we could have done differently and of course there will be time to understand what exactly we could have done, or done differently. "When you listen to the scientists, the questions that you've asked are actually very open questions as far as they are concerned. "And there will be a time obviously to