The UK is facing a “rough” winter, Boris Johnson has warned today – and wouldn’t rule out more Covid restrictions if an unexpected “horror” appears.

And he played down suggestions that restrictions on foreign travel could be lifted as more people received the coronavirus vaccine.

Asked if he’d rule out a return to lockdown if Coronavirus surged again, the Prime Minister said: “I think you can never exclude that there will be some new disease or some new horror that we haven’t budgeted for.