Measures to help self-employed people through the coronavirus outbreak will be announced tomorrow afternoon.

Treasury sources say Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce the long-awaited package at the daily Downing Street press conference on Thursday.

It comes after days of complaints that Britain’s 5million self-employed people have been left high and dry in the Covid-19 outbreak.

Self-employed people aren't eligible for either Statutory Sick Pay or an 80% wage guarantee scheme that's being offered to full- and part-time workers.

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