Mr Johnson moves on to discuss the "chronic failure of British state", saying it has "failed to build enough homes".

He pledged to build "fantastic new homes on brownfield sites and other areas with better transport".

And the PM promises to "address that inter-generational injustice" by helping young people "get on the housing ladder the way their parents and grandparents could".

He says he will do this by introducing the "most radical reforms of our planning system since the end of the Second World War".

The prime minister says he wants the people that "have the confidence to stay and raise families and start businesses to not feel all the action is in the cities".

He praises the "incredible partnership" of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, saying it has "shown its worth" while working together in the crisis.

But he says it needs to be better connected, promising to carry out a study of all road, rail, air and cross sea links to all part of the UK.

Chris Morris
BBC Reality Check

Boris Johnson has repeated a commitment to plant over 75,000 acres of trees (about 30,000 hectares) every year by 2025.

But Conservative-led governments over the past decade have consistently fallen short of targets for tree-planting set out in their election manifestos.

Tree-planting is a devolved issue in the UK, but England’s tree-planting record is particularly poor compared with other European countries.

Government funding, external and support saw about 3.6 million trees newly planted in England in the two years from 2017 to 2019, covering an area of about 2,300 hectares.

That figure does not include trees planted to replace others that have been cut down.

In the same period, Scotland planted, external 18,300 hectares - including 84% of all the new trees planted in the UK in 2018-19.

As for Mr Johnson’s overall comparisons with former American president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, in the 1930s Roosevelt established a Civilian Conservation Corps of hundreds of thousands of unemployed young men (women were not allowed to join).

More than three billion trees were planted across the country by the end of the decade – an achievement that outstrips anything the government is promising to do.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

There was an interesting line just now from the prime minister on the machinery of government.

Bluntly, on whether it works.

He said getting some parts of the government machine to respond to the virus crisis felt like a recurring dream - "you are telling your feet to run and your feet won’t move".

But even before the pandemic, there were those around Boris Johnson who dreamt of shaking up the wiring of central government.

Cabinet minister Michael Gove talked about it in quite some detail in a speech at the weekend, external, which offers a fascinating insight into the thinking that is going on.

This might all sound very Westminstery - and it is - but it matters, because how the various bits of government are structured can have a big impact on whether what ministers want actually happens.

Boris Johnson he says he believes in giving everyone in the country the opportunity they need to achieve success.

The government will build the foundations now for "future prosperity".

He says the government is "investing massively in education" now, citing the £1bn fund schools-building project.

"When I say unite and level up, when I say build up people, build up talent, I want to end the current injustice."

He says a pupil from a London state school is 50% more likely to go to a top university than a pupil from the West Midlands.

Mr Johnson says he plans to "unleash the potential of the entire country and that means cracking down again on the crime that blights too many of our streets".

He reiterates his plan from the election manifesto to recruit 20,000 police officers, as well as "ending the lunacy that stops us deporting violent criminals".

The PM says he wants to "build back greener and build a more beautiful Britain" by planting 30,000 hectares of trees to "enchant and re-energise the soul".

And "in those towns that feel left behind", he wants to invest their centres with "new schools, new buses, and new broadband".

The prime minister says if the UK is to recover fully from the coronavirus crisis, now "is the moment to address the problems" that we have "failed to tackle for decades".

Boris Johnson says we have some of the "best and most productive companies in the world", but the UK is lagging behind some of its international competitors in productivity.

He says too many parts of our country have "felt left behind", stressing that his government has a vision to change this country "for the better" and "level up" inequalities.

Boris Johnson thanks the NHS for saving his life and the way the public has dealt with the crisis.

He says the UK has shown "solidarity not seen since the Second World War".

The PM adds: "Today we must combine that energy and drive with the same burst of willpower that saved hundreds and thousands of lives."

And he says "we must work fast" after a drop in GDP, with "people worried about jobs and businesses".

Mr Johnson says: "We are waiting as if between the flash of lightning and thunderclap with our hearts in our mouths for the economic [damage] to appear.

"But we must plan our response."

Boris Johnson begins his speech by saying it might seem "premature" to make a speech about "Britain after Covid" when "many in this country are nervous", especially after the flare-up in Leicester.

But the UK prime minister says: "We cannot continue to be prisoners of this crisis".

"I think it is absolutely vital for us to set out the plan ahead," he adds.

"If the Covid crisis has taught us one thing, it is that this country must be ready... to move with speed we have not had in generations".

The PM says the government must assess its handling of the crisis, saying: "We owe that discussion to tens and thousands who have died before their time... and there must be time to learn the lessons and we will".

But he says "some things went right" - such as Nightingale hospitals, creating ventilators and the furlough scheme.

The prime minister has taken to the lectern to outline his plans for a post-lockdown recovery.

We will bring you all the updates here.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

The lectern is ready - "build, build, build" says the slogan on the front of it.

Just to the left, some high-vis jackets hanging on pegs.

For months, we've had politics by video call.

Now, the return of the trips out and about - last week, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was in Stevenage, today the prime minister is in Dudley -- two places where general elections are won and lost.

The speech from Boris Johnson shortly is his attempt to re-set the political debate for life after the Coronavirus crisis... expect plenty of themes we heard from him before the virus -- the desire, for instance to "level up" the country - re-embraced as we emerge from what everyone hopes is the worst of it.

Seydina Alioune Djigo
BBC News, Dakar

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Senegalese President Macky Sall has said a state of emergency and nighttime curfew imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus will be lifted from Tuesday.

In a televised address, the president also announced the resumption of international flights from 15 July but under stringent safety measures.

The closure of public markets one day per week for cleaning will continue. Wearing face masks remains mandatory in public spaces, workplaces, public transport and shops.

The president is himself under a two-week quarantine after he came into contact with an infected person. His quarantine ends next week.

Senegal has so far confirmed 6,698 cases and 108 deaths.

Robert Cuffe
BBC head of statistics

There were 10,681 deaths registered across the UK in the week of 19th June.

That’s just eight fewer than the average number for that week over the last five years.

When we’ve seen single weeks with thousands of deaths more than would be expected, this is welcome news.

There were still hundreds of Covid-19 deaths during the week - 849 - but that’s the lowest since the first week of lockdown.

There are two notes of caution.

After a mild winter, we had seen fewer deaths than expected by March, so it’s hard to say where we would have been by now without coronavirus.

And when you look back at deaths in countries that are through the first wave, among whom we can start to make early comparisons, the UK features consistently in the hardest hit.

Secunder Kermani
BBC News

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As coronavirus spreads in Afghanistan, the cracks in the country's healthcare system - already weakened by decades of war - are starting to show.

Concerns have been raised about the supply of oxygen and other resources to government hospitals. One doctor in Kabul has described patients' families having to "fight for oxygen" when cylinders arrived, before bringing it to the intensive care unit themselves.

About 31,000 infections have been recorded in Afghanistan to date. Close to half of all tests conducted so far have been positive, one of the highest rates in the world.

Read more here.

Image source, Leicestershire County Council

A map outlining which areas of Leicester and Leicestershire are included in the new lockdown restrictions has been published by the council., external

The local lockdown covers the entire city, along with suburb towns including Glen Parva, Wigston and Birstall.

The number of deaths in the UK returned to normal in the week of 19 of June.

There were 10,681 deaths across the UK, eight fewer the five-year-average for that week.

There were 849 Covid-19 registered deaths, which was the lowest since the first week of lockdown.

Image source, Clare Pooley

The pandemic has been lonely for many who have had to self-isolate. But some have been lucky enough to have extra company in the form of a pet.

Before restrictions on movement and contact with other people were fully imposed, some dog owners in the UK chose to lend their pets to vulnerable relatives or neighbours.

Clare Pooley loaned her terrier to her dad as a support dog.

It was “a great comfort to me knowing he’s there,” she told the BBC.

Read more here.

The UK economy shrank more than first thought between January and March, contracting 2.2% in the joint largest fall since 1979, official figures show.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised down its previous estimate of a 2% contraction, with all the main economic sectors dropping. There was a significant economic impact in March, as the coronavirus pandemic began to have an effect.

The data comes as the prime minister is set for a major speech on the economy.

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Image source, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said testing for coronavirus in Leicester has revealed there have been "unusually high incidents in children". Schools in Leicester will close from Thursday.

The seven-day infection rate in Leicester is 135 cases per 100,000 people, three times higher than the next highest city, according to government figures. Leicester accounts for around 10% of all positive cases in the country over the past week. And admissions to hospital are between six and 10 per day, rather than around one a day at other hospital trusts.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock also said testing in Leicester has revealed there had been "unusually high incidents in children".

Laura Bicker
BBC News

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Health officials in South Korea have concluded that the idea of a community forming herd immunity from Covid-19 is "wishful thinking".

The Deputy Director of the Korean Centre for Disease Control (KCDC), Kwon Jun-wook, said the organisation had come to that conclusion after analysing both domestic and international data.

South Korea has started antibody tests in random samples of the population to find out the true infection rate within the country. The serology tests will examine the blood of around 6,000 people to find out who has immunity to the virus. These tests will be conducted every two months and will be completed by the end of the year.

So far, in random blood tests of over 1,500 people, officials found that 0.1% of the samples had anti-bodies for Covid-19.

This would suggest that nearly 50,000 people have had coronavirus in South Korea when only 12,800 have so far tested positive for the disease.

The KCDC has emphasised that these are only initial findings and not conclusive at this stage.