1854: 5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Friday 24th April 2020

British consumer confidence held at its lowest since 2009 this month after tumbling in late March, as the country remained in coronavirus lockdown and on track for a deep recession. Bank of England policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe said yesterday that Britain looked on course for its biggest fall in economic output since a catastrophic period of freezing weather more than three hundred years earlier.