UK politics live: Sajid Javid says ‘too early to know’ the lessons that can be learned from Covid crisis

Latest updates: health secretary says he is ‘sorry for the loss people have suffered’ but does not say what government could learn

The number of people waiting for hospital treatment in England has hit a record high of 5.7 million, as the NHS struggles to clear the growing backlog of care worsened by the pandemic, my colleague Andrew Gregory reports.

Whitty says the winter is going to be “exceptionally difficult” for the NHS.

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