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good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be ....
saying it had underestimated the challenge. during around six hours of evidence he admitted that he should have twigged sooner how serious the situation was and said he was sorry for the pain and loss and suffering of victims and families. at one point some campaigners interupted the hearing holding signs that read the dead can t hear your apologies . much of today focused on the start of the pandemic and the timing of covid measures. italy was the first country in the world to announce nationwide lockdown measures on the 9th march. the uk didn t follow suit until a fortnight later. that first lockdown stayed in place untiljune. borisjohnson put england into a second full lockdown in november, ss well as a third full lockdown in january. 0ur deputy political editor, vicki young, sent this report. a lot has been said by a lot of people about borisjohnson s time in number ten. he was confronted by the biggest challenge to face a prime minister in peacetime, notjust a health cr ....