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UK employment falls by biggest quarterly amount since 2009

| August 11, 2020 12:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — The number of people in employment in the U.K. fell by 220,000 in the three months after the country was put into lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, official figures showed Tuesday.

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