Broken Britain? Unemployment skyrockets

A woman files a job application. High unemployment rates reveal continued economic uncertainty.

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Unite: Unemployment figures mark a bleak end to 2011

Unemployment reached a 17-year high after another 128,000 joined the jobless ranks, meaning the total number of unemployed is now 2.64 million. Youth unemployment rose to 1.027 million, the highest since records began in 1992.

FSB: Small firms struggling to find skilled staff as unemployment set to rise again

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Unite criticises Clegg’s short-term plan to get youth working

Unite, the UK’s largest union, has criticised Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg’s plan to provide subsidised work and training placements as a ‘short-term figure-massaging exercise’ which will do little to address record youth unemployment.

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The overall number of unemployed people in Britain has hit a 17-year peak.

There are now 2.62 million people out of work - an increase of 129,000 on the previous three months which takes the total to its highest since 1994.

Bleak economic prospects for growth, which the Bank of England today said was not expected to return until the middle of 2012, have triggered another bout of angry opposition from those fighting the government's spending cuts agenda.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the unemployment rate had increased to 8.3% in the three months from July to September, from 7.9% in the previous three months.

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Broken Britain? Unemployment skyrockets

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Labour: A brutal price

Pertemps: Danger of lost generation

Unite: Blinkered right-wing govt responsible for unemployment

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No 10 unleashes Tory gay marriage opposition with free vote move

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Must try harder: £35bn remains in uncollected tax

Leveson vs Paxman: 'You could become an irrelevance'

Cameron lashes out: Ed Balls branded a "muttering idiot"

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The Watson/Mensch love-in continues… sort of

Pseudo facts? New London Assembly gets off to a rocky start

Beecroft stings 'socialist' Cable

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