SIR – The Tories once flooded our cities with huge posters showing a long queue outside an unemployment office with the slogan ‘Labour isn’t working’, Today, unemployment figures have now soared to 2.62 million and for the first time since records began, more than one million 16 to 24-year-olds are on the dole.

In April 2010, David Cameron told voters he would build a greener economy with thousands of new jobs and get Britain working by giving the unemployed support to get work.

‘Promises, like pie crust, are made to be broken’ (proverb).

David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford