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Tomorrow the unemployment figures for July will be published. They will tell us how many people have no job. But they will not reveal the most important statistic of all, that one million people in Britain have now been out of work for over a year. One third of the unemployed are no longer just moving from one job to another, they are permanently out of work. The Government hopes that Britain will ultimately emerge from the recession leaner and fitter; but evidence is mounting to suggest that the price of a more productive and prosperous economy may be permanent unemployment on a scale the country is not prepared for.
Richard Lindley reports on the jobs crisis facing not only Britain but all the industrialised countries of the West, and talks to
The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit mp, , Secretary of State for Employment
Producer PETER CERESOLE Deputy editor TOM BOWER Editor GEORGE CAREY