Blinded by flash estimates

Employment in the UK is lower than before the pandemic.

The Prime Minister has made repeated claims about employment in the United Kingdom. Boris Johnson MP (Conservative, Uxbridge and South Ruislip) has said:

• “There are now more people in work in this country…than they were before the pandemic began.” (24th November 2021)
• “We’ve now got more people in work than there were before the pandemic began.” (5th January 2022)
• “It is an astonishing fact that we have 420,000 more…