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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Rachel Reeves and the hospitality jobs bloodbath

The raw numbers tell only part of the story — but they are worrying enough. What the statistics show is the struggling hospitality sector — one of London’s biggest employers — shedding huge numbers of jobs. And the crisis is deepening,

When the Office for National Statistics revealed this month that the national headline rate of unemployment is once again back at five per cent, a deeper dive into the data showed how restaurants, bars and hotels have borne the brunt.

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