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Tuesday 01 December 2020 1:21 pm  |  Updated:  Tuesday 01 December 2020 1:24 pm

Four Glastos, nine Wembleys and 9,000 London buses: Here’s how many people have lost their jobs in 2020

By: City PM Reporter

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Four and a half times the number of people who attended Glastonbury in 2019 have lost their job in 2020

Since March 2020, the number of payroll employees has fallen by 782,000 in the UK.

Stats from the Office of National Statistics show the unemployment rate now hovering around 5 per cent.

That’s hard to visualise – but what’s the scale of the economic carnage wrought on the UK economy?

Those numbers are equivalent to…

8,988 packed London Routemasters

New Routemaster Bus Drives Up Piccadilly
(Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Nine FA Cup Final crowds at Wembley

Manchester City v Watford - FA Cup Final
(Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

30 Ashes Crowds at the Kia Oval

England v Australia - 5th Specsavers Ashes Test: Day Three
(Photo by Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images for Surrey CCC)

Six-and-a half times the total working population of the Docklands and Canary Wharf

Aerial Views Of London As England Starts Second Lockdown
(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

342 sold-out London Palladiums

The Magic of Christmas - Show
(Photo by Luca V. Teuchmann/Getty Images)

49 days of visitors to the Tate Modern

Tate Modern Reopens After Boy's Fall From Viewing Platform
Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

2,327 sold-out British Airways 777s

UK In Seventh Week Of Coronavirus Lockdown
(Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

Three times the population of Camden

Spring Temperatures Arrive For Londoners
(Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

… or 6,357 capacity Victoria Line carriages

The UK's Capital Adjusts To Life Under The Coronavirus Pandemic
(Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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