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‘I don’t like corporate boxes’: Jeremy and Ben Corbyn on Arsenal, coaching and Starmer

The former Labour leader and his son tell Donald McRae how football changed their family, and discuss the pleasure and pain that comes from loving such a voraciously capitalist sport

The Guardian - UK

ONS to spend millions on temp workers to fix ‘unusable’ UK employment data

Exclusive: Office for National Statistics to spend £8m in deal with employment agency Randstad to recruit hires

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a huge problem’: what’s gone wrong at the ONS and why does it matter?

The UK’s number-crunching body is still playing catchup over job figures after the pandemic, with validity of survey data being questioned

The Guardian - UK

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Overhaul of official workforce data may take another two years, ONS admits

It said it is now ‘unlikely’ it will be able to introduce a revamped version of its Labour Force Survey in mid-2025.

The Independent UK

ONS inability to fix labour force survey until 2027 ‘a major blow’, MPs hear

Treasury and Bank of England ‘is making bad decisions’ amid complaints about quality of official employment data

The Guardian - UK

ONS may have ‘lost’ a million workers from job figures since pandemic

Resolution Foundation says figures are ‘overly pessimistic’ as people in work are less likely to answer survey

The Guardian - UK

Almost a million workers ‘lost’ by unreliable official data, claims think tank

The Resolution Foundation said the ONS has underestimated growth in employment by 930,000 workers since 2019.

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It’s ‘national sickie day’ – is ill-health holding back the UK economy?

ONS figures suggest long-term sickness is preventing more people from looking for work

The Guardian - UK

Hargreaves Lansdown hit by lawsuit on behalf of Woodford fund investors

Claim brought on behalf of initial 3,200 investors caught up in collapse of Neil Woodford’s equity income fund

The Guardian - UK

Woodford fund investors could be in line for £306m in compensation

FCA orders fund’s administrator, Link, to ringfence sum as part of conditions related to its takeover

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