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Tories gloat over unemployment fall — but ignore living standards crisis
DAVID Cameron presided over an obscene display of wild Tory cheering yesterday as workers’ wages plunged while more than two million people remained unemployed.
In a gung-ho performance at Question Time, the Prime Minister joyfully trumpeted official figures showing a 161,000 fall in unemployment to 2.16 million in the three months to April.
But he failed to spotlight a sharp fall in workers’ living standards, with average wages rising by a measly 0.7 per cent compared to a 2.5 per cent rise in the Retail Price Index.
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