More than 300,000 Britons are at risk of redundancy this year as businesses battle higher costs amid Iran war

While the results of the FOI request showed that 2025 was the worst year since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 for planned or completed redundancies, the picture is looking worse for 2026.


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