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'We should be prepared for the unemployment rate to increase significantly'
Work & Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey.
There was a big increase in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in April - a month of lockdown across the UK. Those figures came out this morning giving us an indication of how the pandemic has affected livelihoods - the Office for national statistics has also released figures on UK unemployment which cover the first quarter of the year聽show the jobless numbers rising by 50,000.
(Image: Therese Coffey. Credit: Reuters)
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