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UK unemployment rate rises to highest level since Covid

UK unemployment rate rises to highest level since Covid

The Standard · Rachelle Abbott

July 17, 202513m 54s

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Show Notes

Today unemployment rates have risen to 4.7%, which is the highest rate since the second lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic in 2021. But what’s the truth behind the figures? Professor Ashwin Kumar, Director of Research and Policy at the Institute of Public Policy Research, is here to unpack the data. 


And in part two, The Standard’s dance critic David Jay explores the uncertain landscape of youth dance, ahead of Sadler’s Wells and Sadler’s Wells East YFX festival. 



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