Boris Johnson's year of U-turns: from Covid tests to free school meals

The government has executed a string of volte-faces in the 12 months since the election

He walked triumphantly back into No 10 wielding an increased majority a year ago to chants of Get Brexit done". But the tune soon changed and Boris Johnson has gone from Mr Brexit to Mr U-turn", in the words of one German newspaper, as he has lurched from disaster to disaster.

Here we trace the winding road of his government's many U-turns.