room, theyjust wanted to stand outside and see him but will probably catch a glimpse of him very shortly. i think this was boris johnson s big moment, as he saw it, to set the record straight. it feels like we have been building up to this moment in the last two weeks. we ve heard from scientists, civil servants, other politicians, political aides. servants, other politicians, politicalaides. it servants, other politicians, political aides. it feels like it was building up to this man, boris johnson, who ultimately made all the big decisions. questions to answer about lockdowns, about how decisions were made, the culture within downing street, i m sure tomorrow we will get to the likes of partygate and some of the things that happened laterally into the pandemic. but i think the striking moment this morning was his apology, it had been trailed in the newspapers over the weekend that he would apologise, seek to set the record straight, he certainly did that, he saw two took pe
live. we start in the uk, where borisjohnson has apologised for the pain, loss and suffering during the covid pandemic, saying he takes personal responsibility for mistakes that were made. mrjohnson, who was prime minister throughout that period, has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry. during questioning, he said government ministers did the best they could in very difficult circumstances, but admitted they could have done better. so many people suffered, so many people lost their lives. inevitably, in the course of trying to handle a very, very difficult pandemic in which we had to balance appalling harms on either side of the decision, we may have made mistakes. i don t want to try to anticipate the discussion which i m sure we will get into about the timings of lockdowns. .. will get into about the timings of lockdowns. inevitably, we got some things wrong. i think we were doing our best at the time, given what we knew, given the information i had available to me