Workers excluded from UK Covid safety net in choral 'Les Mis' plea
Over a hundred people record version of One Day More to urge chancellor to act
A choral cry for help based on a song from the musical Les Miserables is being aimed at the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, by workers who have slipped through the government's coronavirus income protection net.
A hundred people, including self-employed driving instructors, fitness teachers and health workers, have recorded a version of One Day More in a plea for the government to bail out people whose incomes have evaporated since lockdown but have received little or no emergency help.
This article was amended on 4 September 2020. An earlier version said people in receipt of pensions were ineligible for the self-employment income support scheme; this is only the case if a pension contributes to alternative income that exceeds that from self-employment. This has been corrected.
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