{"id":636050,"date":"2025-12-16T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/636050\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:04:09","slug":"london-unemployment-rises-to-6-8-highest-in-a-decade-outside-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/636050\/","title":{"rendered":"London unemployment rises to 6.8%, highest in a decade outside the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow London minister Gareth Bacon said: \u201cThese figures come as no surprise. \u201cWe have a Labour government that has spent 18 months talking our economy down, ignoring industry, jacking up taxes, pushing up inflation and making it far more difficult for businesses to hire people.\u201cThe increase in unemployment is a direct result and is likely to get worse because of government policies.\u201cThe government urgently needs to change direction.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shadow London minister Gareth Bacon said: \u201cThese figures come as no surprise. \u201cWe have a Labour government that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[936,748,1700,393,4884,257,15165,16,5664,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-636050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-bank-of-england","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-office-for-national-statistics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-unemployment","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115729390927854617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}