A job centre is pictured in Bromley, south-east England yesterday. Britain’s unemployment rate rose to 8.4 per cent in the three months to December, which was the highest level for 16 years, official data showed yesterday. The total number of unemployed people increased by 48,000 over the quarter to reach 2.67 million.

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