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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (left) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak clapping outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London
TENS of thousands of self-employed people are not eligible for the government’s coronavirus support scheme, official figures showed today.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that around 150,000 self-employed people in the country have only worked for themselves since the end of the 2018/19 tax year.
This means they may not be eligible for the government’s self-employment income support scheme because they would miss the threshold to prove their past income to receive wage subsidies.
Campaigners urge government to ignore profiteering oil lobbyists and help those hit hardest by rising energy prices
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
