Umunna: Desperate situation as 9.9% of Londoners unemployed  

London MP Chuka Umunna has urged the Government to change course after the Office of National Statistics today revealed that London’s unemployment rate increased by 10.4%, meaning that 9.9% of Londoners are now unemployed. The January release by the Office of National Statistics showed that there were now 424,000 more people unemployed in the London region, a rise of 10.4% over the year. The Streatham constituency represented by Mr Umunna was revealed to have 500 more people claiming JSA in the last month than were doing so a year earlier. Chuka Umunna urged the Government to do more to get jobs and growth back in the economy. The MP said that the figures represent the human cost being paid for the economic plans of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Government which is cutting spending and raising taxes too far and too fast, choking off growth and job creation. Nationally unemployment...