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The sector will also be restricted by law to table service only.

Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said people should also work from home “if they can” and trials of spectators at sports fixtures would be “paused”.

The full measures will be set out by the prime minister in the House of Commons later.

Boris Johnson will also address the nation in a live broadcast at 20:00 BST on Tuesday.

It comes as the UK’s Covid-19 alert level moved to 4, meaning transmission is “high or rising exponentially”.

Mr Gove told BBC Breakfast that there was evidence the 22:00 closing time has a “beneficial effect” on the spread of the virus in areas where the restriction has already been tried.

He denied the government was wrong to relax coronavirus measures against the virus in the summer, describing the new restrictions as a “recalibration which we hope and believe will be enough to check the spread”.

“We’re not going back to the sorts of measures that we had in the spring,” he said.

“If people can work from home they should”, he added. “But I stress that it’s very important that those people whose jobs require them to be in a specific workplace do so.”

Mr Gove said plans for sport with live audiences to return from 1 October were being halted “for the moment” because of the risk of fans mixing on the way to the stadium or during half-time.

The government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has warned there could be 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action - which, he said, could lead to more than 200 deaths per day by mid-November.

Prof Calum Semple, an expert in outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool, told BBC Breakfast current data was “tracking the worst-case scenario quite accurately”.

He said there was now a rise in hospital admissions, including among women aged 20 to 40, who were at risk of exposure to the virus because of their work in hospitality, caring roles or because they were parents of schoolchildren.

The UK needed “quite a lot more” restrictions in place to prevent the spread, and the hospitality industry will probably have to take another “hit”, Prof Semple said.

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