What are we to make of the fact that only 35 of the 1000 ex-employees of recently closed Remploy factories have so far found new employment?

Liam Byrne deduces that it is a consequence of the lack of jobs in the economy and therefore the decent thing to do is to halt further closures.  

This would suggest that in a more buoyant economy the figure would be far higher. Yet there is little evidence that many more ex-factory workers found work following the closure of 28 factories under Labour ...