'People have every reason to be confident and calm about all that kind of thing… all the coronavirus, and any threats from disease,' Boris Johnson, Feb 2020.

'We can turn the tide within the next 12 weeks and I’m absolutely confident that we can send coronavirus packing in this country,' Boris Johnson, March 2020

'We can now see the sunlight and pasture ahead of us. And so it is vital that we do not now lose control and run slap into a second and even bigger mountain,' Boris Johnson, April 2020

'We have a route, and we have a plan, and everyone in government has the all-consuming pressure and challenge to save lives, restore livelihoods and gradually restore the freedoms that we need,' Boris Johnson, May 2020

'I take full responsibility for everything this government has been doing in tackling coronavirus and I’m very proud of our record,' Boris Johnson, June 2020

'It’s very important that people should be going back to work if they can now....I think we should now say, well, ‘go back to work if you can’. Because I think it’s very important that people should try to lead their lives more normally.,' Boris Johnson, July 2020

'We have the disease under control,' Boris Johnson, August 2020

'We are once again asking office workers who can work from home to do so,' Boris Johnson, September 2020

'People are not following the guidance in the way that they should...everybody got a bit, kind of complacent and blasé,' Boris Johnson, October 2020

'We are entering a new and crucial phase of our fight against Coronavirus....we must act now,' Boris Johnson, today.