House of Commons speaker slams government for announcing lockdown changes before MPs told

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has told MPs he thinks it is “totally unacceptable” that the government will be holding a press conference this evening on expected changes to the Covid roadmap timetable before informing the House of Commons.

Boris Johnson is giving a Downing Street press conference at 6pm - two-and-a-half hours before his Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, will answer MPs' questions in the Commons at 8.30pm.

It prompted The Speaker to say: “Can I just say, we weren’t going to get a statement until I got involved with Downing Street. "The fact is this has been forced to actually get a statement today, it was going to be