Employment at record high as UK shrugs off Brexit vote

The number of people unemployed but looking for work fell by 39,000 to 1.63m between May and July, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Wed, 14 Sep 2016

The number of people unemployed but looking for work fell by 39,000 to 1.63m between May and July, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

The figures, published this morning, revealed an unchanged unemployment rate of 4.9% but down from 5.5% from the same period in 2015.

Meanwhile, the proportion of people in...

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