LOW-PAID workers are five times more likely to be furloughed on reduced pay during the second lockdown, new analysis shows.

Fears that minimum-wage earners will be plunged into poverty have arisen as England is put under the month-long lockdown due to start on Thursday.

The second national lockdown announced on Saturday, which will be voted on in the Commons tomorrow, also came with an 11th-hour  announcement that the furlough scheme will be extended — on the day it was due to end.