The daily Downing Street press conferences will no longer take place at weekends. The daily briefings from the government on its response to the coronavirus outbreak have been a regular fixture since March.
But Number 10 has confirmed that the conferences will no longer take place on a Saturday or Sunday and instead just run Monday to Friday.
They have also said that Boris Johnson will lead at least one of the briefings a week, alongside scientific and medical experts while the others will likely continue to be held by other senior ministers.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman told a Westminster briefing: "From this week, the press conferences will be on weekdays only – so no longer on Saturdays and Sundays. "The PM will take a press