Britain’s opposition Labour Party elected Keir Starmer as leader, putting a moderate lawyer with an eye for detail in charge as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus comes under fire.

Starmer said he would "engage constructively” with Johnson’s Conservative Party where in the national interest to defeat the pandemic, but took aim at ministers for some of their handling of the crisis and criticized them for failing to explain why Britain lags behind other countries when it comes to testing for the virus.

"Let’s be honest, serious mistakes have been made,” Starmer wrote in an article for the Sunday Times. "It is vital that that trust is met with openness and transparency about those mistakes and the decisions that have been made.”