UNEMPLOYMENT is set to surge past two million this week and is expected to continue increasing all year, with some analysts predicting it will reach 3.3m before the jobs market recovers from the recession.
The number of people looking for work reached almost 1.98m when the figures for the quarter to December were released last month.
New figures to be published on Wednesday by the Office for National Statistics are expected to show that more people are out of work since Labour came to power in 1997, when the total was just over two million.
Job losses continue to rise across British industry, leading to fears that unemployment will soar well over three million next year.
