# Britain’s unemployment rate has edged up to the highest level in over four years, adding to the country’s economic strains ahead of the government’s annual budget. The rate reached 4.8-percent in the three months to the end of August, the highest level since the first half of 2021. That is comparison with unemployment at 4.7-percent in the three months to the end of July. The data comes as Britain endures stagnant growth and stubbornly-high inflation, around six weeks before the Labour government sets out its latest tax and spending plans.
Britain’s unemployment rate highest in four years at 4.8%