{"id":199196,"date":"2025-10-14T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199196\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:42:09","slug":"unemployment-rate-rises-to-four-year-high-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199196\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Rate Rises to Four-Year High \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unemployment rate rose to 4.8% in the three months ending in August, according to the ONS. The highest level since June 2021\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRising unemployment is a disaster for the economy and a tragedy for affected families.The growing crisis of young people not being able to find work is a prime example of Labour taking our country in the wrong direction. It beggars belief that the government are making things worse with their \u2018back to the seventies\u2019 employment legislation which every single business group opposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least there are fewer working people for Reeves to betray with her Winter Budget tax hikes\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unemployment rate rose to 4.8% in the three months ending in August, according to the ONS. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[458,84,1294,1634,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-labour","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}