A couple of interesting/encouraging stats from @ONS today. Firstly, youth employment has held up strongly during the pandemic - a huge relief given what a concern it was. A rise in economic inactivity to keep an eye on but generally positive... 
Second, despite large no of vacancies only 14% of firms are reporting staff shortages - maybe because a lot of job swapping going on? However shortages are more acute in food/hospitality and care sectors
In less good news, confirmation of how the economy was hit in Q1 by second lockdown - in fact it's surprising the hit wasn't greater...
And finally (and ironically given the small boats crisis) the govt did actually finally hit the Cameron target to get net migration down to the tens of thousands. It just took a global shutdown to do it...
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