UK Labour Market Unemployment is at its highest since the pandemic and the numbers are getting harder to ignore. Latest ONS data shows a clear and concerning trend. A thread. 🧵

“Work is the best route out of poverty.”...That’s the promise, but for millions in the UK, it’s broken. 📉 In-work poverty has risen from 2.5m workers in 2000/01 to 3.8m in 2023/24 (12%). Work matters, but without secure jobs, fair pay and a real safety net, it’s not enough.

1/ 🧵 The latest UK labour market data is out and it paints a worrying picture. Slow growth for real wages, job vacancies are shrinking, and unemployment is creeping up. Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s happening 👇

📒 Government published Sir Charlie Mayfield's ‘Keep Britain Working’ report today. An ambitious framework for how employers can support workers in ill-health. Focus must be here to shift the dial on employment of disabled people & benefit spend, not cutting people's benefits. 🧵

The latest DWP data (Apr–Jun 2025) reveals an early warning sign: the number of disabled people in work may be starting to fall, the first year-on-year drop in over a decade (though not yet statistically significant). . Here’s what the data tells us and why it matters 👇

1/ 📉 Real earnings growth in the UK has slowed sharply and the hit is falling hardest on lower earners. A quick thread on what the latest Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) tells us 👇