Claim: 1.7 million people in Britain today are unemployed.
Fact-check: Immigration and unemployment in the UK - Full Fact
Verdict: correct, as of july-september 2016. although the figure hasn't been adjusted to take into account the time of year, and by historic standards that's a fairly low level of unemployment.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Richard Braham
Date published: 2016-12-05T00:00:00