There was a record 356,000 increase in payrolled workers between May and June, the seventh monthly rise in a row. Firms hired at a blistering pace after indoor hospitality reopened and ahead of the final lifting of restrictions on Monday. The Office for National Statistics said the rise was the biggest since Covid struck and since records began in 2014.
Pay was also shown to be booming and vacancies rose by 241,000 quarter-on-quarter to 862,000, between April and June. This was 77,500 above the first three months of 2020, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time.
The jobless rate dropped again, to 4.8 percent between March and May, down from five percent.
The ONS said unemployment fell 68,000 to 1.6 million between March and May, while employment rose 25,000 to 32.2 million.
Mr Sunak said: “We are bouncing back.” And he told Sky News: “The best way to help people in the long term is to get them into well-paid work and we are throwing the kitchen sink at that as part of our plan for jobs.
“It’s worked over the past year it continues to work. We should have confidence…
