A slight typo from the BBC when the unemployment figures were released a day early.
The rate had reached 7.1%, not 7.1 million. The actual number is much lower, although a still painfully high 2.15 million.
Ooops!
BBC says UK unemployment rate hits 7.1 million
May 12, 2009Posted in: Politics
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Even better. This morning the BBC News site had a headline along the lines of ‘Ministers claim expenses on swimming pools’ followed by the subheading ‘Speaker condemns leak’