The Financial Times focuses on a chart used in the Downing Street briefing, which showed that the most recent seven-day average is 45,799 cases. The paper says there was a “sharp change of government tone at the first Downing Street pandemic press conference in five weeks”. Whitehall insiders say the government is “unlikely to consider” rolling out its plan B before mid-November, it adds – after the COP26 conference in Glasgow.