A top Tory today admitted "mistakes have been made" after the UK's coronavirus death toll reached the highest in Europe. James Brokenshire, the Security Minister, accepted errors in the government's response will be looked at "robustly" and "rigorously" after the pandemic.
New figures yesterday showed a total of 32,375 deaths involving Covid-19 have now been registered across the UK. In Italy, the European country which first suffered an outbreak on a horrific scale, that figure stood at 29,315 as of 5pm on Tuesday.
The government says it is too early to make a proper international comparison. But so far, the officially-recorded death toll is the highest in Europe.