Johnson backs doctors over care for Charlie

Boris Johnson has backed the hospital treating terminally ill Charlie Gard and said decisions about his care should be in his “best interests”.

The Foreign Secretary told his Italian counterpart it is “right that decisions continued to be led by expert medical opinion, supported by the courts”, after the Vatican’s paediatric hospital offered to care for the 11-month-old.

Charlie’s mother has spoken to doctors at the Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome and medics are in touch with international and US experts. 0 Boris Johnson: Baby’s best interests should be central

Legal attempts by Charlie’s parents to take him to America for an experimental treatment failed as judges in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court ruled in favour of GOSH doctors.