Unemployment in Britain has risen again and is now at 3.7 per cent, up 0.2 per cent on the quarter. It’s a very small change in the grand scheme of things but, perhaps counterintuitively, a change in the right direction.
This morning’s labour market update from the Office for National Statistics shows that while the headline unemployment figure has ticked up, the economic inactivity rate has slightly decreased by 0.1
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