Dominic Raab says he was given just five minutes' notice to stand in for his boss Boris Johnson when the then-PM was ill with Covid in April 2020

Speaking to the UK Covid inquiry, Raab has also insisted "the best decisions" were made during the pandemic with the "fluid" information available at the time

He's also denied claims there was a "puppet regime" in No 10 - appearing to contradict Sajid Javid, who worked in government himself during the pandemic

Javid told the inquiry earlier that many key decisions at the start of the outbreak were made by Johnson's top aide Dominic Cummings - not by Johnson himself

He also said NHS capacity was an issue, and repeated his call for a Royal Commission to reach political agreement on the future funding of the health service

Boris Johnson is due to give his own evidence to the Covid inquiry in due course, as is Rishi Sunak