A nurse who treated Boris Johnson for coronavirus says the Prime Minister "absolutely needed" intensive care as he battled the disease.
Mr Johnson praised Jenny McGee, 35, and her colleagues for saving his life when he was released from St Thomas' Hospital in London.
In her first interview, Ms McGee, from Invercargill, New Zealand, rejected the suggestion that the PM's symptoms did not warrant being moved into the intensive care unit (ICU) She told TVNZ: We take it very seriously who comes into intensive care, these patients who come into us it's a very scary thing for them so we don't take it lightly and he absolutely needed to be there." Mr Johnson, 55, is at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country house in Buckinghamshire, as he