LABOUR took the Tory government to task today over the record number of redundancies recorded in just three months during the coronavirus pandemic.

About 370,000 people lost jobs between August and October, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

In the ten months after the pandemic started in February, some 819,000 workers were dropped from payrolls, a third of them from the hospitality sector, according to ONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan.