Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted the UK government could have handled the Covid-19 outbreak "differently", and said there were gaps in the understanding about the virus during the early stages.
But he denied ministers had been too slow going into lockdown, arguing he "stuck like glue" to the advice of experts. Speaking to BBC News, Mr Johnson said: "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." He has promised an inquiry into the approach to dealing with Covid-19.
During the interview, Mr Johnson said there would be a time for questions about the UK's death rate, with more than 50,000 people thought to have died after