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Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith says that the latest unemployment figures, showing it reached a near five-year high at 5.2% in the last quarter of 2025, are "shocking but not a surprise". Griffith says the rise was driven by rises in national insurance tax on businesses and government-imposed "red tape". Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Really shocking figures on unemployment today. Well, shocking, but not a surprise, because if you put up national insurance, if
00:06you hike the cost of hiring people, and if you impose hundreds of pages of red tape on employers, that's
00:14understandably going to be what we see.
00:15So unemployment up to a five year high, over 5% rate of unemployment has gone up almost every month
00:22of this government. And particularly sad within this is the increase in youth unemployment, young people who've worked hard deserve
00:29their shot at life, not being able to find a job because those jobs aren't there because Labour have taxed
00:35them or regulated them out of existence.
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