Debbie Abrahams MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, commenting on the ONS Labour Market statistics said:

“We welcome today’s unemployment rate, but it is clear the Tories have presided over a broken labour market with insecure work and in-work poverty rising.

“This government has asked the most vulnerable members of our society to pay for six wasted years of austerity. The results of their economic mismanagement have been increased borrowing, growth revised downwards and pay flat-lining.

“Only a Labour Government will stand up for working people and build a fairer economy that works for us all.”