Prime minister is a 'fighter'published at 08:30 British Summer Time 7 April 2020
Mr Carlaw says he is sure that Boris Johnson is "enormously frustrated" at the moment.
He said the prime minister would have been "absolutely determined" to lead from the front last week and would have found it very hard in isolation.
He told Good Morning Scotland that Mr Johnson should possibly have been resting instead.
"But he is a fighter so I suspect that is what he will be doing just now," he said.