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Four Glastos, nine Wembleys and 9,000 London buses: Here’s how many people have lost their jobs in 2020
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Since March 2020, the number of payroll employees has fallen by 782,000 in the UK.
Stats from the Office of National Statistics show the unemployment rate now hovering around 5 per cent.
That’s hard to visualise – but what’s the scale of the economic carnage wrought on the UK economy?
Those numbers are equivalent to…
8,988 packed London Routemasters
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Nine FA Cup Final crowds at Wembley
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30 Ashes Crowds at the Kia Oval
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Six-and-a half times the total working population of the Docklands and Canary Wharf
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342 sold-out London Palladiums
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49 days of visitors to the Tate Modern
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2,327 sold-out British Airways 777s
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Three times the population of Camden
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… or 6,357 capacity Victoria Line carriages
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