Job vacancies dropped by 21,000 to 691,000 in the three months to September. Their lowest level in more than five years…
The Office for National Statistics says small businesses are blaming higher labour costs for scaling back hiring, a point so obvious it could be observed from space. Unemployment fell unexpectedly to 4.7%, its lowest in over a year. Although the rate for 16 to 24-year-olds is still a full point higher than this time last year at 15.6%…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”