UK unemployment rate lowest for almost 10 years

Posted on 17 Dec 2015 by Fred Tongue
Manufacturing employment increased for the twenty-sixth successive month in June

In the three months leading up to October, the unemployment rate in the UK fell to the lowest point in almost a decade at 5.2%.

This is the lowest jobless rate since the three month period to January 2006, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Between August and October the  number of people out of work fell by 110,000 to 1.71 million. A poll of economists by Reuters expected the unemployment rate to remain at 5.3%, the same…

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