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What time is the speech?
The Prime Minister will address Parliament this afternoon and is expected to do so at around 12.30 pm.
He is expected to address the nation in a live television broadcast at 8 p.m.
Before that, he will chair the morning Cabinet meeting and hold his first Cobra emergency committee meeting in four months, which will be attended by the leaders of the four UK nations.
what channel is it on?
The speech will be broadcast live on The Telegraph’s YouTube channel.
Why are you making this speech?
Boris Johnson has been forced to order new restrictions after a surge in coronavirus cases across the country.
On Monday, the coronavirus alert status rose to the second highest level for the first time since June.
On the same day, government scientific advisers warned that coronavirus cases could rise to 50,000 per day by mid-October (see chart below), with 200 or more deaths per day in November “if we don’t change course.”
