In the Guardian today and from the ONS, above, but getting no BBC coverage:

Unemployment fell and wages increased in April, official figures showed, putting pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates despite a peace deal in the Middle East.

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed [UK] unemployment slipped to 4.9% in the three months to April from 5% in the three months to March.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/18/uk-unemployment-rate-falls-wages-interest-rates-iran-war

Looking just at England and Scotland, it’s, in crude terms, 0.8% higher in the former. BBC Reporting Scotland will probably describe that as ‘similar’ but as a percentage difference, it’s 18.6% higher.

Looking at the actual number of people unemployed in the UK, it’s 1 764 000 so that 0.8% difference means around 140 000 unemployed who would not have been, had the SNP governed the UK this last two decades and around 10 000 Scots currently employed, who would have been unemployed had Labour or the Cons governed Scotland in the same time period.