British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on July 8 he took full responsibility for the government's response to the coronavirus outbreak, denying that he was trying to blame care workers for the spread of COVID-19.

Johnson has been criticized for saying some care homes did not follow procedures to stem the spread of COVID-19 deaths and was repeatedly asked by opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer to apologize. The prime minister did not do so.

"The last thing I wanted to do is to blame care workers for what has happened, for any of them to think that I was blaming them," Johnson told parliament.

Johnson, speaking during Prime Minister's Questions, brushed off a question on factory working conditions, in light of a Sunday Times report on workers in a Leicester clothes factory being paid as little as 3.50 pounds (US$4.39) an hour, saying his Conservative party had introduced a higher living wage and laws against modern slavery.

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