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Fact check: Has unemployment risen ‘every single month’ under Labour?

Full Fact looks at the numbers after a claim from several Conservative MPs, including the party’s leader Kemi Badenoch.

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

‘I don’t like corporate boxes’: Jeremy and Ben Corbyn on Arsenal, coaching and Starmer

The former Labour leader and his son tell Donald McRae how football changed their family, and discuss the pleasure and pain that comes from loving such a voraciously capitalist sport

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2025

ONS to spend millions on temp workers to fix ‘unusable’ UK employment data

Exclusive: Office for National Statistics to spend £8m in deal with employment agency Randstad to recruit hires

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2025

Almost a million workers ‘lost’ by unreliable official data, claims think tank

The Resolution Foundation said the ONS has underestimated growth in employment by 930,000 workers since 2019.

Evening Standard · Nov 20, 2024

It’s ‘national sickie day’ – is ill-health holding back the UK economy?

ONS figures suggest long-term sickness is preventing more people from looking for work

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024

Hargreaves Lansdown hit by lawsuit on behalf of Woodford fund investors

Claim brought on behalf of initial 3,200 investors caught up in collapse of Neil Woodford’s equity income fund

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2022

Woodford fund investors could be in line for £306m in compensation

FCA orders fund’s administrator, Link, to ringfence sum as part of conditions related to its takeover

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022