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Youth unemployment ‘crisis’ looms, Labour warns government

LABOUR warned today of an impending jobs crisis facing young people as new figures showed that almost nine in 10 jobs lost during the pandemic have been those of under-35s.

Between February 2020 and last month, 693,000 fewer people were in paid employment, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

About 63 per cent (437,000) of those who lost their jobs were under 25, while 25 per cent were aged 25 to 34 (174,000).

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