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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn and Nicholas Cecil

Jobs crisis London: unemployment hits five year high of 7.6% as Londoners ‘pay for Labour’s failures’

London’s growing jobs crisis dramatically deepened today when new official figures showed the capital’s unemployment rate has jumped to a five year high of 7.6%.

The jobless tally is by far the worst of any region in the country and compares with a UK average of 5.2% and is almost double the 4% rate in the south east.

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