Dear Yahoo News editorial team,

I'm writing on behalf of London Chronicle (londonchronicle.co.uk), an independent UK news publication. We have just published an in-depth, data-led investigation that I believe will be of strong interest to Yahoo News UK readers, and I wanted to flag it directly to you.

The headline finding: London now has the highest unemployment rate of any UK region — 7.9% in the latest ONS regional release covering November 2025 to January 2026. Within London, the East Ham parliamentary constituency carries a jobless rate of 17.8%, the worst of any constituency in the United Kingdom. That figure is more than three times the national average, and it has received almost no national coverage outside specialist labour market commentary.

The full investigation is here:
https://londonchronicle.co.uk/londons-quiet-jobs-crash-how-the-capital-became-britains-unemployment-capital-and-why-east-ham-is-the-place-nobody-wants-to-talk-about/

The piece draws on ONS regional labour market data, Trust for London borough-level figures, the Greater London Authority's London Datastore analysis, House of Lords Library briefings on retail and hospitality policy, and recent Resolution Foundation work on UK youth unemployment. It explains how the capital — for two decades the country's job engine — has quietly become Britain's unemployment outlier, and why young Londoners and east London communities are carrying most of the damage.

Key data points covered in the article:

• London unemployment: 7.9% (highest of any UK region)
• Newham: 8.7% (highest UK local authority)
• East Ham parliamentary constituency: 17.8% (worst constituency rate in the UK)
• London youth unemployment (16–24): 18.8% — now higher than the EU average for the first time since records began in 2000
• London workforce jobs fell by 110,000 in 2025 (the largest fall of any UK region)
• Westminster recorded the steepest single-authority drop in payrolled employees in the country

We would be very happy for Yahoo News UK or Yahoo Finance UK to syndicate, quote, link to or build on this reporting. We can also provide additional borough-level data, follow-up reporting, or a shorter sidebar version on request.

Please do let me know if you would like further information or would like to discuss.

Kind regards,

Doris kuca
Editor
London Chronicle
https://londonchronicle.co.uk