WATCH: Reeves Admits Government Has \u201cMore to Do\u201d As Economy Sheds Jobs <\/p>\n
Reeves is trying to put a positive gloss on today\u2019s labour market statistics. Someone\u2019s got to do it\u2026<\/p>\n
Speaking this afternoon in Belfast, she said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was some really positive news in there. Employment since I became Chancellor last year is 384,000 higher\u2026 although the number of people unemployed increased slightly on the quarter, the number of people who are economically inactive actually fell by much more\u2026 Is there more to do? Absolutely there is. Everyone who can work should work\u2026 there are huge opportunities in our economy\u2026 we need to do more to support people back into appropriate work for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unemployment remains at a four-year high<\/a>, job vacancies are down, and the working hours lost to strikes<\/a> in the first half of 2025 was a whopping 279,000\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH: Reeves Admits Government Has \u201cMore to Do\u201d As Economy Sheds Jobs Reeves is trying to put a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,1932,54,55],"class_list":["post-62047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-unemployment","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62047","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=62047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}