Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows there has been a record 314,000 redundancies, which were reported leading up to September as the coronavirus took a further toll on jobs.
The rate of unemployment in the three months to September has risen to 4.8% which is up by 0.7% on the previous quarter.
ONS suggested that even as the wider economy was bouncing back from the pandemic-driven recession at the start of the year, the jobs crisis worsened.
The crisis is expected to deepen further over the coming months.
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