What time is Boris Johnson's announcement on living with Covid plan today?

Boris Johnson is set to make an announcement on his plans for 'living with Covid' today.

The prime minister is expected to announce that the legal requirement to self-isolate in England will be scrapped and that the provision of free lateral flow tests will be coming to an end.

Mr Johnson is meeting with his Cabinet this morning, and will then outline his plans to MPs in the House of Commons this afternoon.

Following a week-long recess Parliament will be sitting again from 2.30pm. A statement from the PM is expected to follow after defence secretary Ben Wallace has answered questions.

This is expected to be at around 3.30pm.

A press conference from Downing Street is also expected this evening, No 10 has said, but a time has not yet been confirmed.

Press conferences usually take place at 5pm, but because of the late start in the House of Commons it could come later.

Downing Street said the vaccination programme had left England in a “strong position to consider lifting the remaining legal restrictions”, with more than 81 per cent of adults having received a booster dose, and Covid cases continuing to fall.

Speaking to Sky News this morning, business minister Paul Scully said it was important to make changes to coronavirus rules “to allow the economy to recover, to allow people to get back to a sense of normality, whilst keeping people safe”.

Mr Scully said: “Infections are coming down quite rapidly, the hospitalisations and deaths are following as well – they tend to lag behind, obviously, the case numbers – but nonetheless you can see the trend within that.”

Mr Scully said Mr Johnson will be “looking at the best advice possible but getting the balance right”.

He said businesses will be liable to pay for their