Rise in unemployment shows UK jobs market is cooling, but it is not collapsing - short news
Despite latest poor data wage growth remains resilient, and there are ‘signs of confidence returning’
UK unemployment rises as jobs market ‘weakens’
Anaemic economic growth, rising inflation, and a worsening outlook in the jobs market. If the inheritance from the Conservatives had been bad, the situation a year in to the new Labour government does not look much better.
The latest figures show unemployment nudged up to 4.7% in May, hitting the highest level in four..
source: The Guardian - 17.07.2025