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Annual Increase:
The WFJ estimate is 304,000 (0.8%) higher than it was a year ago, and 1.5 million (4.2%) above the pre-pandemic level.
Industry-Specific Growth:
Most industries saw an increase in WFJ, with human health and social work activities experiencing the largest annual increase (166,000 jobs, or 3.3%).
Employment Rate:
The employment rate, which measures the proportion of people aged 16-64 in employment, has also increased.
Unemployment:
The unemployment rate for people aged 16 and over was estimated at 4.7% in March to May 2025.
It's worth noting that while the Labour Force Survey (LFS) suggests a significant increase in employment over the year (754,000),

other sources like PAYE data show a decrease in payrolled employees. The Office for National Statistics has acknowledged that the LFS data may be less reliable than usual at the moment and recommends considering other labour market sources.

✅ Bringing waiting lists down - they've fallen by 250,000 already
✅ Recruited 2,000 more GPs and we've invested in urgent fixes for over 1,000 GP surgeries across the country
✅ Delivering on our manifesto commitment to roll out 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments
✅ Freezing prescription charges for the first time in years, keeping them under a tenner
✅ And yesterday, we announced tens of thousands of patients are getting vital tests and scans in their community thanks to our boost to out-of-hours service

Labour Acheivements since July 2024 to June 2025.
45,000 additional pensioners are now receiving Pension Credit which is a Gateway Benefit worth over 4k on top of Pension Credit, Pension payment and Disability Payment. Due to Labour Government promotion drive

Extended £150 Warm Home Discount for low-income households from Energy Companies including Pensioners to 2026

Extending the Household Support Fund up in 2025 with £1 billion to ensure local authorities can support vulnerable people and families. PENSIONERS ENERGY BILLS

Pension Credit will increase by 4.1% from April 2025:

Single person: The standard minimum guarantee will increase to £227.10 per week

Couple: The standard minimum guarantee will increase to £346

2025

The full state pension will increase to £230.25 per week (£11,973 a year), while the basic amount will rise to £176.45 per week (£9,175 a year) – welcome news for retirees, especially those out of pocket due to lost winter fuel payments.

Other changes to benefits in 2025 include:

The basic State Pension will increase to £176.45 per week

The deadline to pay voluntary NICs for the contribution years 2006/7 to 2015/6 will be extended to April 5, 2025

The Pension Age Disability Payment (PADP) will be rolled out nationally in Scotland by April 22

6.7%, was applied to pensions from 8 April 2024.

4.1 % increase of Pensions in 2025 up to £470 to the state pension in April and up to £1,900 more over the next five years

Inflation-linked benefits and tax credits will rise by 1.7% from April 2025, in line with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rate of inflation in September

Working age benefits will be uprated by 1.7% from April 2025, which will see around 5.7 million families on Universal Credit gain £150 on average in 2025-26.

WILDLIFE

Landscapes and wildlife, promote nature recovery, meet the targets in the Environment Act, build sustainable homes that support biodiversity, and improve access to nature.

9 new National River Walks and three new National Forests in England

Expand nature-rich habitats such as wetlands, peat bogs and forests, and move towards a circular economy, while emphasising the need for coordinated global action to address the climate and nature crisis.

Ban trail hunting (a loophole in the Hunting Act which is used by many hunts as a front to continue hunting foxes with dogs)

Eradicate Bovine TB so that the ineffective badger cull could be brought to an end

Introduce the long-anticipated ban on the import of hunting trophies

New actions to improve flood resilience and species abundance and important funding to secure enhanced environmental benefits and deliver for nature recovery, including sensitive areas such as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs).

EDUCATION

Free Breakfast Clubs for all Primary schools

Ofsted reform and curriculum review.

Recruitment and retention

Recruit 6,500 new expert teachers in key shortage subjects

Create 3,000 new primary school-based nurseries

SEND and mental health

Curriculum and school improvement

Launch an “expert-led review” of the curriculum to ensure it is “rich and broad, inclusive, and innovative”

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IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM

30.000 people Deported organised by the largest deportion flights in history

Any person applying for citizenship from 10 February 2025, who previously entered the UK illegally will be refused

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2024-25

Research Briefing

Published Thursday, 06 February, 2025

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INVESTMENTS

New investments SECURED include £6.3 billion in UK data centres as well as world class UK university Imperial College London

Innovative investment projects announced over the last month across infrastructure, renewables and life sciences will create close to 38,000 new jobs across the UK

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Secured the future of Hitachi's train factory in County Durham and its 750 highly-skilled workers

FirstGroup, Hitachi and Angel Trains have struck a deal to build 14 state-of-the-art trains to be used on rail lines across the UK

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£10 billion investment which will create thousands of jobs in the North East of England has been announced by the Prime Minister in New York today.

Record-breaking International Investment Summit secures £63 billion and nearly 38,000 jobs for the UK

Nearly 38,000 UK jobs are set to be created across the UK after a total of £63 billion of investment was announced around today’s International Investment Summit.

RANNANS LAW

Domestic abuse specialists will be embedded in 999 control rooms after a woman was murdered by her ex-husband despite ringing police four times on the night she died.

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RONANS LAW

Labour announces ‘Ronan’s Law’ to crack down on online weapons sales

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MARTYNS LAW

To ensure stronger protections against terrorism in public places

Support, guidance and training will help embed best practice and drive-up standards across the UK.

HILLSBOROUGH LAW

The Hillsborough Law will introduce a legal duty of candour on public bodies.

Officials or organisations that mislead or obstruct investigations could potentially face criminal sanctions.

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EMPLOYMENTS RIGHTS BILL

Flexible working

Sick pay

Unfair dismissal

Protection for maternity returners

Right to disconnect

Minimum wage

The minimum wage will no longer be tapered by an individual's age.

Bereavement leave

The bill will extend the right to parental bereavement leave to all bereaved persons.

Guaranteed hours

The bill will require school employers to offer guaranteed hours to qualifying workers.

Reasonable notice of shifts

The bill will require school employers to give zero-hours workers reasonable notice of shifts.

Skills England, a new national body tasked with driving the skills needs of the next decade. No longer will we need to rely on international imports to address the severe skills shortage, home-grown talent will address that need.

Increased living wage to record levels

Increased public sector pay and stopped Jnr Dr's strike.

Increased Miners Pensions

Across the UK, 112,000 pensioners and their families will benefit, with an average increase of £29 per week. The pension uplift follows the £1.5 billion transfer of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, ensuring fair payouts and restoring dignity to those who powered Britain for decades.2 days ago

WOMEN AND GIRLS

Stalking victims to be told perpetrator’s identity

Tougher guidance in England and Wales will also prevent convicted stalkers from contacting victims while in prison

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Hospital waiting lists fall by 2 million but A&E has busiest October on record

£100m levy on gambling companies

PUBLIC OWNED RAIL BUSES AND TRAMS

South Western Railway will be the first train operator nationalised under the new government, with the operators contract up in May 2025. C2C (July) and Greater Anglia (Autumn) will be the next to follow.

GB ENERGY PUBLICLY OWNED RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY

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HOUSING

A housing recovery plan; a blitz of planning reform to quickly boost housebuilding to buy and rent and deliver the biggest boost to affordable housing in a generation, enhancing local voice on ‘how’ housing is built with communities confident plans will be delivered

The next generation of ‘new towns

Package of devolution to Mayors, with stronger powers over planning and control over housing investmen.

‘Planning passport’ for urban brownfield development; with a fast track approval and delivery of high-density housing on urban brownfield sites

First dibs for first time buyers

NHS

2 Million Patients off waiting list

Double the number of cancer scanners

Dentistry Rescue Plan

8,500 additional mental health staff

Return of the family doctor

Modernising the NHS

A system reliant on pagers and fax machines is not fit for this decade let alone the next. Too many cancer deaths could have been prevented with earlier diagnosis.

Power to the patients

At the heart of every medical decision must be patients and their families.

Ensuring patient safety

Childbirth should not be something women fear or look back on with trauma. Labour will ensure that trusts failing on maternity care are robustly supported into rapid improvement. We will train thousands more midwives as part of the NHS Workforce Plan and set an explicit target to close the Black and Asian maternal mortality gap

Healthcare closer to home

Men’s Health Strategy with a view to bridging the life expectancy gap between men and women

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UK INDUSTRY

Construction has begun on HMS Sheffield - a new advanced warfare ship for the Royal Navy. The ship is being built at BAE Systems’ Govan shipyard in Glasgow.

Historic £1.6bn deal provides thousands of air defence missiles for Ukraine and boosts UK jobs and growth

A Tree Planting Taskforce has been launched by gov to oversee the planting of millions of trees.

Removal of dangerous cladding will be ‘sped-up’. By 2029, all 18m+ (high-rise) buildings with unsafe cladding in a government-funded scheme will have been remediated.

Covid Counter-Fraud commissioner. Hayhoe, will be tasked to look at more than £7bn of fraud from Covid support

13,000 more frontline police officers by the end of parliament.

BORDER SECURITY

Joint work between the UK and Iraq to target people and drug-smuggling gangs.

strengthen border security co-operation and tackle serious and organised crime.

The UK’s largest ever drugs conspiracy has been uncovered after an NCA operation in collaboration with Dutch law enforcement.

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An Iraqi people-smuggling gang supplying boats for Channel crossings has been dismantled in an international operation supported by the @NCA_UK.

13 suspects were arrested in Germany and France including senior gang members who sourced equipment for crossings.

Clamped down on Suppliers to small boat People smuggling crossings.

Clamped down on illegal immigration.

HOMELESSNESS
Across the country, Labour is investing a record nearly £1 billion for councils to help break the endless cycle of spiralling homelessness. Ministers are bringing the total funding for the Homelessness Prevention Grant up to £633m – the largest investment in this grant since it began. At the same time Labour is investing £280m directly into rough sleeping and single homelessness services, so we can condemn the scandal of rough sleeping to history. The Government is also ending no fault evictions – alongside plans to build 1.5m new homes.

The Government announced the plans after inheriting a record 123,000 households living in temporary accommodation – including nearly 160,000 children – after 14 years of Conservative rule.

More UK defense investment to UK-based businesses.

-Learning lessons from Ukraine around innovation.

-Deterrents.

2 billion early years funding Schools

8.6 Billion Highways Repairs including Pot Holes

Hospices in England to receive £100m funding boost

Breakfast clubs

Renters Reform

Workers Rights Bill

Saving 2 b cancelling Rwanda

FARMING

£343 million of funding benefiting more than 31,000 farmers

£5 billion to the farming budget – the largest ever increase investment in sustainable food production in our country’s history.

A new and improved Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) scheme will open in 2025

14 Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) endorsed actions, further improving the offer. These will be available from summer 2025 to enable farmers and land managers to contribute further benefits to Grassland, Heritage, and Coastal sites, among others.

Further payments made in December include £39 million under SFI, as part of the quarterly payments system designed to improve farmers’ cashflow and a further £7.4 million has been paid to customers who have completed Capital Grants works.

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PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS

Closing the Gender Pay Gap

Employment Bill That Works for Women

50% Split of Ministerial Roles for Women

Two, Ministers for Women and Equalities who both attend Cabinet with other positions.

Misogyny as Hate crime

Buffer Zones at Abortion Clinics

Drink spiking to be made criminal offence

All police to have violence against women training

Bringing back the family doctor and improve local NHS care

Stop water bosses’ bonuses when their companies harm the environment

Greater support for victims of violence against women

Great British Railways

Make the minimum wage a genuine living wage

INCREASE IN CARERS ALLOWANCE

The main carer’s benefit, the ‘Carer’s Allowance’, is set to rise in the earnings limit to an equivalent of 16 hours of pay

The National Living Wage

£12.21 an hour from April 2025, resulting in one of the biggest increases in the earnings limit since the benefit was first created in 1976. Working carers will now be able to earn £196 per week and claim Carer’s Allowance, which is an increase of around £45 per week in comparison to the previous earnings threshold of £151. This all means that 60,000 more carers will be able to access Carer’s Allowance as a result.

ARMED FORCES

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PM says step up in defence spending can safeguard the future of NATO

6% per cent pay for armed forces

This pay rise marked the largest in 22 years, but has seemingly failed in its main objective, retaining talent.

13.4 per cent wage increased junior doctors.

The Armed Forces Commissioner Bill 2024-25 was introduced in the House of Commons on 6 November 2024.

£3.5m on support for military veterans facing homelessness.

£10m of funding to protect rough sleepers from cold weather this winter.

Extra £233m of spending next year to prevent homelessness, bringing the total to £1bn.

Councils will have to prioritise veterans for social housing and waive rules requiring applicants show a connection to the local area for veterans' families, under new guidelines

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SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES

Reduce the amount paid in NICs as an employer, you can claim the employment allowance.

It’s currently set at £5,000 for the 2024-25 tax year, but will be increased to £10,000 for the 2025-26 tax year.

More funding for the NHS, including GBP1.5 billion for new surgical hubs and scanners and GBP70 million for radiotherapy machines.

240 million in funding for local services will be spent on helping people get back to work,

Bus fares capped across England to £3.

Liverpool City Region Mayor unveils ground-breaking new ‘zero bills’ home that will revolutionise housebuilding

House will showcase Liverpool City Region’s (LCR) ambitions to be the UK’s centre of excellence for offsite construction of new homes.

The low-energy, zero-carbon house has been built on the ACC Liverpool waterfront events campus using innovative construction methods.

✅More rough sleepers will be helped off the streets and provided warm beds this winter thanks to new emergency funding given to local councils by the Labour government. New funding will also continue supporting specialist programmes for vulnerable groups sleeping rough, including veterans, care leavers and victims of domestic abuse. This is alongside giving life-changing support to people who have slept rough long-term, with critical outreach staff helping to address substance abuse and provide employment opportunities.

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Keir Starmer has made sixteen international trips to fifteen countries and one British Overseas Territory during his premiership improving relationship with world

Coalition of the willing for Ukraine

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HOMELESSNESS

Labour INVESTS £1bn to tackle homelessness in shift towards prevention: 'It's time to turn the tide'

Across the country, Labour is investing a record nearly £1 billion for councils to help break the endless cycle of spiralling homelessness. Ministers are bringing the total funding for the Homelessness Prevention Grant up to £633m – the largest investment in this grant since it began. At the same time Labour is investing £280m directly into rough sleeping and single homelessness services, so we can condemn the scandal of rough sleeping to history. The Government is also ending no fault evictions – alongside plans to build 1.5m new homes.

The Government announced the plans after inheriting a record 123,000 households living in temporary accommodation – including nearly 160,000 children – after 14 years of Conservative rule.

Government Tracker

Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises.

Progress displayed publicly—so every single person in this country can judge our performance on actions, not words.

Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister – 24 September 2024

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ALL MY POST CAN BE FACT CHECKED.

@UKLabour opposition from the Populist Right and left and both creating diversion tactics. The Right Asylum and Immigration, The left with Anti Zionism ,pro Palestinian, and more Immigration

There have been major changes that have been ignored by mainstream media, who are The Tory and Reform paymasters.

THE UK IS STILL LIVING UNDER TORY LAW INC THE ONLINE SAFETY ACT 2023 AND THE PUBLIC ORDER ACT, AND BORDERS BILL.

ALL NEW LAWS GOING THROUGH PARLIAMENT THAT HAVE TO BE READ 3 TIMES, GO TO THE LORDS THEN TO GET ROYAL ACCENT.

King Charles is responsible for agreeing with all laws because of UK law.

FINAL POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

Councils will have to prioritise veterans for social housing and waive rules requiring applicants to show a connection to the local area for veterans' families, under new guidelines

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SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES

Reduce the amount paid in NICs as an employer, you can claim the employment allowance

It’s currently set at £5,000 for the 2024-25 tax year, but will be increased to £10,000 for the 2025-26 tax year.

More funding for the NHS, including GBP1.5 billion for new surgical hubs and scanners and GBP70 million for radiotherapy machines.

240 million in funding for local services will be spent on helping people get back to work,

Bus fares capped across England to £3

Liverpool City Region Mayor unveils ground-breaking new ‘zero bills’ home that will revolutionise housebuilding

House will showcase Liverpool City Region’s (LCR) ambitions to be the UK’s centre of excellence for offsite construction of new homes

The low-energy, zero-carbon house has been built on the ACC Liverpool waterfront events campus using innovative construction methods

✅More rough sleepers will be helped off the streets and provided warm beds this winter thanks to new emergency funding given to local councils by the Labour government. New funding will also continue supporting specialist programmes for vulnerable groups sleeping rough, including veterans, care leavers and victims of domestic abuse. This is alongside giving life-changing support to people who have slept rough long-term, with critical outreach staff helping to address substance abuse and provide employment opportunities

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Keir Starmer has made several international trips to many countries and one British Overseas Territory during his premiership and has improved relationship with world leaders

Coalition of the willing for Ukraine

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_i…

HOMELESSNESS

Labour INVESTS £1bn to tackle homelessness in shift towards prevention: 'It's time to turn the tide'

Across the country, Labour is investing a record nearly £1 billion for councils to help break the endless cycle of spiralling homelessness. Ministers are bringing the total funding for the Homelessness Prevention Grant up to £633m – the largest investment in this grant since it began. At the same time Labour is investing £280m directly into rough sleeping and single homelessness services, so we can condemn the scandal of rough sleeping to history. The Government is also ending no fault evictions – alongside plans to build 1.5m new homes

The Government announced the plans after inheriting a record 123,000 households living in temporary accommodation – including nearly 160,000 children – after 14 years of Conservative rule

Government Tracker

Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises.

Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister – 24 September 2024

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Annual growth in employees' average earnings was 5.0% for regular earnings (excluding bonuses) and 4.6% for total earnings (including bonuses)

Annual growth in real terms, adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs (CPIH), was 0.9% for regular pay and 0.5% for total pay

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