Business Secretary Alok Sharma will host a press conference in Downing Street today at 5pm. Mr Sharma will deliver the coronavirus update as Boris Johnson tries to bring order to No 10 in the wake of a power struggle which resulted in the resignation of one of his closest aides.
But Downing Street insiders insisted that Mr Sharma has always been scheduled to take the press conference in the wake of an update on the UK's economy this morning.
Statistics confirmed that the UK economy surged by a record 15.5% between July and September as Britain rebounded out of recession but the recovery slowed sharply even before the second lockdown, official figures show.
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