Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to this morning’s Labour Market Statistics, said:

“While today’s fall in overall unemployment is welcome, the Government must not be complacent. More than 900,000 young people are still unemployed and over 250,000 young people have been unemployed for over a year.

"Today‘s figures also show working people facing a cost-of-living crisis are over £1,600 a year worse off since David Cameron’s became Prime Minister.

"The Government should introduce Labour’s Compulsory Jobs Guarantee to get people back to work now.”