Is Boris Johnson right that UK had fewer Covid deaths than much of Europe?

We fact check the assertion at the Covid inquiry that Britain was ‘well down the European table, and well down the world table’

Boris Johnson has questioned the assertion by the lead counsel in Britain’s Covid inquiry that Britain was among the worst performers in western Europe in terms of the number of excess deaths recorded during the pandemic.

The former prime minister told Hugo Keith KC on Wednesday that the UK was “well down the European table, and well down the world table”.