Boris Johnson's daughter Lara orders Prada in isolation as act of 'self-care'

Boris Johnson's daughter has opened up about her life in lockdown at her childhood home.

In the week that UK coronavirus fatalities topped 21,000, Lara Lettice Johnson-Wheeler - who the prime minister shares with his ex-wife Marina Wheeler - proclaimed she was ordering a Prada headband as an act of "self-care".

In an article commissioned by Vogue, Lara, 26, wrote she only had "two jumpers, a dress, a skirt and a pair of trackies" to wear after being forced into isolation alongside her boyfriend.

Lara Johnson-Wheeler has been buying designer headbands as an act of 'self-care' (Instagram)

In desperation, she's had to unpack her teenage wardrobe and wade through clothes she last wore when she was living full-time with her parents.

"I'm trying my best not to buy more clothes right now, uncertain about future financial prospects and conscious it isn't the time to splurge," she wrote.

"But, I must confess, I did buy two headbands – one black and fluffy, from Shrimps, and one pink and from Prada – that I've been drooling over for months.

"I'm allotting these spending choices as self-care; I needed something to remind myself that sometimes, in the midst of all this uncertainty, it's OK to use fashion to remind myself who I am today," Lara added.

Lara - the eldest of Boris' brood of at least five children with another on the way (he has turned the practice of shrugging off questions about his paternal legacy into something of an art form) - regularly writes for Vogue, The Spectator and her own publication (un)fold magazine, having been educated at the £33,000-a-year private school Bedales.

Meanwhile, more than 100 NHS and care staff have died after testing positive for COVID-19 - as keyworkers beg the government for more vital PPE to protect themselves on the frontline.

Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury warned the government about the lack of PPE five days before he died of COVID-19 (PA)

The teenage son of a doctor who died this month called on Health Secretary Matt Hancock to apologise for the government's mishandling of the coronavirus crisis.

Intisar Chowdhury, 18, told LBC today that an apology would go some way to restore public trust after his father, 53-year-old Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, died of the killer virus.

Days before his death, Dr Chowdhury appealed to the government in an open Facebook post to give keyworkers the "appropriate PPE and remedies" to "protect ourselves and our families".

Tragically, he succumbed to the highly infectious disease at Queen's Hospital in Romford, east London, five days later.