UK unemployment

The number of people out of work soared by almost a quarter of a million in the first three months of this year, figures show.

The rise of 244,000 is the biggest quarterly increase in the jobless total since 1981 and was larger than many analysts had predicted.

It takes the number of people in the UK now looking for work to just over 2.2 million, the worst figure since 1996.

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