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PM celebrates 'massive' unemployment fall — while 2 million remain jobless

PRIME MINISTER David Cameron celebrated a shameful total of over two million unemployed yesterday while he left thousands of AstraZeneca jobs threatened by a Pfizer takeover.

Mr Cameron boasted of “a massive fall in unemployment,” but Labour leader Ed Miliband accused him in the Commons of acting as “a PR man” for the job-destroying Pfizer drugs giant.

While Mr Miliband welcomed the fall in the jobless total, Labour backbenchers tried to puncture Mr Cameron’s inflated joy over the figures.

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