Earlier this week, the PM was publicly criticised for “blaming” the devastating number of care home deaths on care home managers, saying “too many care homes didn’t really follow the procedures”.

But yesterday (7 July), when Labour leader Keir Starmer challenged the PM about his comment, Johnson said the last thing he wants to do is “blame care workers for anything that’s happened” and admitted he takes “full responsibility for what has happened” in care homes.

Urged by Starmer to say sorry, Johnson said: “He keeps saying that I blamed or tried to blame care workers and that is simply not the case. The reality is we now know things about how the coronavirus is passed, person to person, without symptoms, that we just didn’t know.”

Finally, after months of being challenged over taking too long to react to the crisis, Johnson took accountability on the issue, but no actual apology was given.

Boris Johnson just took responsibility for the care home crisis – so what will he do about it?