This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.
Britain will over the coming months endure the biggest rise in unemployment of any major advanced economy.
That was the conclusion of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) last week, when it warned that UK joblessness will soar from 4.8pc last year to 5.5pc by the end of 2026.
When Labour took office in July 2024, unemployment was just 4.1pc. But the number of payrolled employees has since fallen in fourteen of the twenty-one subsequent months to April – with around 1.81 million now unemployed.
It is unusual, when the population is rising, for the number of payrolled jobs across the economy to fall.
But that pattern has been broken under Labour.
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Britain will over the coming months endure the biggest rise in unemployment of any major advanced economy.
That was the conclusion of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) last week, when it warned that UK joblessness will soar from 4.8pc last year to 5.5pc by the end of 2026.
When Labour took office in July 2024, unemployment was just 4.1pc. But the number of payrolled employees has since fallen in fourteen of the twenty-one subsequent months to April – with around 1.81 million now unemployed.
It is unusual, when the population is rising, for the number of payrolled jobs across the economy to fall.
But that pattern has been broken under Labour.
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Britain has rarely been this anti-growth, says M&S chairman
It’s almost unbelievable how economically inept Starmer’s Labour are.
Literally everything they’ve done or threatened to do has hurt growth https://t.co/SLewrnxRrZ
🇬🇧 There are 79 vape shops on the Home Office’s public register of licensed visa sponsors.
‘Guardian Vapes Ltd’ in South Shields is licensed to sponsor overseas workers via the ‘Skilled Worker Visa’ route. 🧵1/3