Layla Barnes is one among many thousands of small business owners left financially and emotionally devastated by more than ten weeks of government-imposed lockdown.
She was forced to close her Doncaster-based beauty therapy and training business which was profitable in February before lockdown began.
Yet the government’s excluded Layla, 30, and her limited company from any form of crisis-related support, forcing her onto benefits of £408 per month.
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