Josh Maratty, policy advisor at the North East Chamber of Commerce, said: “Between March and May 2025, the unemployment rate ...

The UK’s unemployment rate climbed to its highest level in three years while wage growth slowed, according to data published ...

Unemployment rose to 4.7 per cent in the three months to May, the highest rate since the Covid pandemic in 2021 ...

An interest rate cut from the Bank of England in August looks a “near certainty” after new figures showed unemployment rising and pay growth slowing, economists say. Financial markets had already ...

In the UK, a sizable upward revision to May's payroll data, combined with hotter-than-expected inflation data, takes some of ...

Labour ’s Jess Phillips has agreed that it does not feel as if the economy was going well, as she acknowledged the rise in unemployment was “disappointing”. The MP for Birmingham Yardley also said it ...

London's stock indexes rose, driven by signs of a cooling labour market, fueling expectations that the Bank of England will ...

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey finds himself in a predicament: Wednesday’s CPI data for June at 3.6% showed inflation was much closer to the 4% at which he thinks consumers are sensitive to ...

The UK jobs market has weakened as wage growth slows and the unemployment rate rises, official statistics show. The annual ...

London's main stock indexes rose on Thursday, as signs of a cooling labour market assured investors that the Bank of England ...

The pound strengthened against the euro on Thursday, after data showed that a cooling in the British labour market, which had ...

A significant upward revision to May's payroll figures, coupled with Wednesday's hotter-than-expected inflation data, is ...