UK moves out of global recession

A strong sign that the UK is moving out of the global recession.

Its unemployment rate fell from 6.8% to a five-year low of 6.6% in the three months to April. This compared to unemployment across the euro zone, which was 11.7% for the same period, according to Eurostat.

According to official figures, the total number of people in employment has now hit a new record high of 30.54 million.

That’s 2 million reasons the Labour party were wrong, according to the UK’s coalition government prime minister, David Cameron.

“Labour said our plan to create more jobs wouldn’t work,” he said. “But today’s employment figures show they were completely and utterly wrong.

“There are now two million more private sector jobs than there were in 2010.”