THE TUC has rebuked the Tories over their “lack of a credible economic plan” after new figures exposed the steepest rise in unemployment since the pandemic. 

Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures revealed yesterday that unemployment in Britain has increased by 74,000. In the three months to August, a total of 1.4 million were out of work, a peak not seen in two years.

Job vacancies have also declined consecutively for the fifteenth time, with figures showing a quarter-on-quarter decrease of 43,000 to 988,000.