Boris Johnson has warned the UK is "vulnerable" to a deadly resurgence of coronavirus as winter approaches. The Prime Minister said the country had done "an incredible thing" battling the virus but the UK still faced the threat of a second wave.
Mr Johnson issued the winter warning as he admitted the government could have handled the outbreak differently in the early months.
And he conceded that Tory ministers had failed to understand the virus properly at the beginning of the pandemic. But he denied that ministers had been too slow to bring in the lockdown, telling BBC News: "No, on the contrary, no if you look at the timing of every single piece of advice that we got from our advisers, from Sage, you will find that whenever they said