My number-one priority, every single day, is to figure out how we can get businesses to hire and create jobs with decent wages.

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If you compare this latest three-month figure with the one published last month (i.e. the three months to September), the number out of work has barely changed at all - in fact it has fallen by just 4, 000.

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