Move over tea — coffee is the nation’s new favourite

It’s enough to have Mrs Doyle weeping into her tea cosy.

It seems the days of tea being the nation’s number one hot drink are over, with consumer monitoring firm Kantar World Panel revealing that coffee now accounts for 41% of the market — with tea knocked into second place on 40%.

The remaining chunk of the market is divided up between herbal teas and other hot beverages such as hot chocolate.