Boris Johnson says The Queen is on “very good form,” despite being told to rest for two weeks.

The Prime Minister’s in Rome for a G20 summit of world leaders He told reporters the “important thing” was that the monarch follows the advice of her doctors and gets some rest. He added that the whole country wishes her well.

The Queen underwent tests in hospital last week and cancelled a two-day trip to Northern Ireland as well as a visit to the climate crisis summit in Glasgow.

But the head of state says she has the “firm intention” of leading the nation in honouring the country’s war dead on Remembrance Sunday on November 14.