Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce a financial package aimed at helping the self-employed today. The Government has been under pressure to help the sector after Mr Sunak announced last week that the Treasury would guarantee a historic bail-out of £330bn worth of loans to businesses as well as other smaller businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Chancellor will outline his measures on Thursday as part of the government's daily updates to the public on the outbreak.
The move comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Parliament he wanted to achieve “parity of support” so the self-employed could have similar levels of protection to waged workers.