Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given a rousing speech to mark the 75th anniversary since VE Day and said the “same spirit of national endeavour” is now needed to defeat coronavirus.
Just a few weeks after recovering from Covid-19 in hospital and welcoming baby son Winston with his fiancée Carrie Symonds, Johnson tries to galvanise long-suffering Brits with a video message.
In the clip, the PM honours the sacrifice who died to fight the Nazis and compares World War 2 to the current struggle against the virus.
He says: “People of every age, race and background came together in one supreme effort and they paid a grievous price with over 450,000 British people laying down their lives. “And yet they triumphed over every ordeal and hardship and