Labour’s action to support jobs and help the unemployed is showing results across the country

Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Famously, during the last recession at the end of the 1980s an early 1990s, the then Tory Chancellor said “rising unemployment…is a price worth paying”.

During this recession, on the other hand, Britain’s unemployment is 450,000 lower than experts predicted at the time of the last budget, and is much lower than during previous recessions.

This graphic shows the percentage change in unemployment figures between the number of people claiming unemployment benefit now, compared with the last recession under the Tory government in 1991-2.

Click on any region for your local statistics — and see the difference a Labour government makes.

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