Reeves Admits Government Has “More to Do” As Economy Sheds Jobs – Guido Fawkes

WATCH: Reeves Admits Government Has “More to Do” As Economy Sheds Jobs

Reeves is trying to put a positive gloss on today’s labour market statistics. Someone’s got to do it…

Speaking this afternoon in Belfast, she said:

“There was some really positive news in there. Employment since I became Chancellor last year is 384,000 higher… although the number of people unemployed increased slightly on the quarter, the number of people who are economically inactive actually fell by much more… Is there more to do? Absolutely there is. Everyone who can work should work… there are huge opportunities in our economy… we need to do more to support people back into appropriate work for them.”

Unemployment remains at a four-year high, job vacancies are down, and the working hours lost to strikes in the first half of 2025 was a whopping 279,000…