Misleading2025-11
What is circulating
“Responding to the Budget on 26 November 2025, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said unemployment "is up every single month since Labour have been in office."”
Claimed by Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Party leader · official statement
The facts
Full Fact said the claim was not quite correct. The number of unemployed people rose by about 309,000 between May to July 2024 and July to September 2025, but there were several small monthly falls along the way, and the ONS urges caution because survey response rates are low.