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Once more, the Times‘ supposed Scotland edition does not just not do Scotland, it misrepresents it.
There are no directly comparable data for 18 to 24 year-olds but there are for 16 to 24 year-olds and they’re shockingly different which may explain why no Scottish media are going there.
Scotland – Skills Development Scotland (SDS) – Economy, People and Skills: January 2026 (published January 20, 2026): Reports the 16-24 youth unemployment rate in Scotland as 10.2% for the period September to November 2025 (based on ONS Labour Force Survey data). It notes this is a 1.7 percentage point decrease from the same period the previous year, with caveats on small sample sizes and data declassification affecting precision.
England – Office for National Statistics (ONS) – UK Labour Market: February 2026 (released February 17, 2026): The headline 16-24 unemployment rate is 16.1% for October to December 2025—the highest since early 2015. This is widely reported across sources, with young people (16-24) hit hardest amid rising overall unemployment to 5.2%.
So this 5.9% difference is more than half as big and so can be described as 57.84% higher.
Remember, we’re talking about tens of thousands of 16-24 year-olds in work in Scotland, who would not be if they lived in England, and hundreds of thousands out of work in England who would be in work if they lived under a government applying SNP policies.
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