Self-employment isn’t working: sole traders and microbusinesses – the new ‘left behind’

In a time of great crisis and need, the striving, hard-working business folk who are actually the backbone of the U.K.’s most local economies have, astonishingly, been simply left behind by a floundering, out-of-touch Treasury, whose days must surely now be numbered. It has shown it cannot see beyond its limited business horizons in this present crisis. It has signally failed to protect a vast swathe of our business economy. But, more importantly, it also failed to protect the very real people in it.