Dr Sangwoo Lee assesses the latest data from the Office for National Statistics on the current state of the UK's labour market, highlighting the unemployment rate, wage growth and easing cost-of-living pressures, regional disparities, and future expectations for 2025.

Reader in Statistics and the Director of the Applied Statistics & Risk Unit, The University of Warwick

“I encourage girls to get into science, including the mathematical sciences, because there is definitely a space for them. Many of us didn’t know what we wanted to do at 17 or changed paths along the way. Sharing those experiences encourages young people, it shows them that even if you don’t follow a straight path, you can still succeed.

"Today’s ONS’s Labour Market Overview for October is not optimistic. Without doubt the region’s labour market is in for a bumpy few months. But there is also a need to think now about the region’s future and how 2021 might play out." Professor Terence Hogarth of IER analyses what today's ONS statistics reveal about the labour market prospects for the West Midlands.

Professor David Firth, the inventor of the statistical methodology of the exit poll used by the main UK broadcasters on election night, comments on its extraordinary accuracy in previous years. But states it may not be as accurate every time.

As six-year-old Alfie Dingley visits Parliament with his mother, a day after confirmation that he would receive a licence to use cannabis oil to treat his epilepsy, Professor Jane Hutton of the Department of Statistics discusses the efficacy of this drug for the condition.