Johnson's coronavirus press conference is anything but reassuring | John Crace

Flanking himself with experts wasn’t enough to make an uneasy PM look on top of the crisisThere may come a time when an emergency press conference actually reassures someone, but we’re a long way off as yet. Quite the reverse, in fact. When Boris Johnson had lined up with the chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, and chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, at Downing Street last Tuesday the mood had been notably more relaxed. Though Boris had tried to look serious when doing his f