This economy has become a jobs factory.”In fact, there are about 1.42 million unemployed people in the UK and many more who are underemployed and would like more hours. But asked on ITV’s Peston on Sunday show whether it would be a big budget or a boring budget, Hammond said it would be “a balanced budget”. John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said: “The chancellor thinks there are no unemployed people in this country. He added: “As chancellor, Philip Hammond needs to be on top of the numbers, and as he should know very well, there are actually 1.425 million people unemployed. There’s 1.4 million unemployed people in this country and that’s 1.4 million too many.

Source: The Guardian November 19, 2017 11:06 UTC