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Unemployment Blip Becoming a Very Worrying Trend - Cable

12.00.00am GMT Wed 18th Jan 2006

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Vince Cable MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, responding to the latest unemployment figures released today by the ONS, said: "What could have been dismissed as a temporary blip is now becoming a very worrying permanent trend.

"The UK is heading back to the bad old days, and with worries growing over personal debt we could see people struggling to pay their mortgages and worrying about whether they will soon have a job."

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