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Nicola Sturgeon says rising unemployment in Scotland shows need to restart the economy

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Nicola Sturgeon has said a rise in unemployment underlines the need to restart the economy as quickly as can be done safely.

The First Minister announced today that £33 million will go towards helping people back to work once lockdown eases, as she warned lockdown was creating an "economic emergency".

She said Scotland's current unemployment rate of 4.1 per cent was "relatively low" by historical standards - but warned the figures "do not reflect the full economic impact of the pandemic " as

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