Yes - payroll numbers suggest we've lost 695,000 since March.
But that figure was 730,000 last month - following some revisions
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There's the first sign in monthly data (always can be a blip) of the official unemployment rate rising
Even more so in weekly data (up to almost 5%)
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Hours are staging a recovery - still about 10% down on pre-pandemic level, but way above April.
But this is where we see big distributional shifts (here self employment is suffering)
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Also hitting the young and part-timers
So - if you've had a stable job and are a millennial, you've been fine, but younger, older, self-employed, or part-time, you've got a lot more to worry about
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First: Interest rates were lower in the autumn statment than when Truss was in office (and wasn't U-turning), so the public finances would have had to cope with the continued "moron premium" - now gone
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Second: Truss proposed a £45bn of tax cuts and these were reversed with a fiscal tightening of £55bn by Hunt - so there was a £100bn difference (way bigger than the £30bn improvement in 2022-23 we've seen) ft.com/content/5daeca…