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Minister Yvette Cooper warns of rising unemployment
1 Feb 2010Unemployment will rise again in the next few months, the Cabinet Minister for welfare admitted today.
Yvette Cooper said the election is expected to take place against a backdrop of rising jobless figures despite a fall of 15,000 in the latest claimant count.
“We do expect unemployment to rise again before the summer,” she said.
At the same press conference Lord Mandelson appeared to make a gaffe by predicting higher growth in the next set of economic figures.
He said: “I think we can have every confidence that we will not slip back into negative growth.”
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No doubt she is aware that she, her husband, and approximately 600 other MPs will be unemployed in May.
- R.F.York, Yorks, UK, 01/02/2010 20:09
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Rising unemployment, its not the shortage of jobs that is the problem, its the fact that we are populating ourselves into having more people of working age with no jobs, consider all the thousands of schools in the UK all with classes of thirty or more who at the end of term in March will be released out of education to look for non-existent jobs, and that's without all the immigrants who are flooding in. If we dont do something serious about emigration in 20 years time there will be more people out of work than working.
- Ann Other View, North West, 01/02/2010 16:07
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She's got a point: - both Ms Cooper and her husband Ed Balls along with the rest of the Labour government are all going to find themselves unemployed in a few months time.
- Jez, London, 01/02/2010 14:18
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