UK unemployment rate continues to rise
The rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, as coronavirus continued to hit the jobs market. …
There are some bad numbers in this release, as would be expected from the pandemic restrictions, but they were expected to be a little worse. In the quarter to November, there were 418,000 extra unemployed over the same period in 2019 – the sharpest annual rise since the 2009 financial crisis.