BORIS Johnson has promised an independent probe into the UK Government’s response to the coronavirus crisis.

The Prime Minister said in the Commons that there will "certainly" be an inquiry in the future, but argued it is too soon to start one now.

During PMQs, LibDem acting co-leader Sir Ed Davey said: "Under this PM we suffered one of the worst death rates in the world and Europe's worst death rate for health and care workers.

"Previously he's refused my demand for an immediate independent inquiry, saying it's too soon, even though back in 2003 he voted for an independent inquiry into the Iraq war just months after that conflict had started.

"If he still rejects an immediate inquiry, will he instead commit in principle to a future public inquiry, yes or no?"

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Johnson replied: "As I've told the House several times, I do not believe that now in the middle of combating, still as we are, a pandemic is the right moment to devote huge amounts of official time to an inquiry, but of course we will seek to learn the lessons of this pandemic in the future and certainly we will have an independent inquiry into what happened."

A total of 44,968 people have died in the UK after testing positive for Covid-19, though the death toll including cases linked to the virus is thought to exceed 65,000.