Britain’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.7 per cent in the three months to the end of April as the UK economy began to emerge from its lockdown, official data showed on Tuesday. Unemployment eased from a rate of 4.8 per cent in the first quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement. The jobs market is being helped also by the government’s furlough scheme paying the bulk of wages for millions of private-sector workers. In May, “the number of employees on payroll grew strongly..., up by almost 200,000, although it is still over half a million down since the pandemic struck”, noted Sam Beckett, ONS head of economic statistics. Data showed more employers were seeking to hire, with strong growth in job offers in sectors such as hospitality as coronavirus lockdown measures began to be eased. The UK reopened non-essential retail, including restaurants and bars, in April, allowing the wider British economy to recover further from pandemic fallout. However, on Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a four-week delay to the full lifting of coronavirus restrictions in England owing to a surge in infections caused by the Delta variant. The delay comes...