NEW JOBLESS figures pulled down yet more of the facade of David Cameron’s much-trumpeted “recovery” yesterday, while the PM himself relaxed on a Portuguese beach on one of his three summer holidays.

The ranks of the unemployed swelled by 25,000 to 1.85 million in the three months to June — the second increase in a row.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey branded the stats “the first crack in the edifice of post-election Tory economic triumphalism.”

And the unemployment figures hide the true scale of Britain’s jobs crisis, counting only people who have looked for work in the past four weeks or are waiting to start a job.

A whopping 9 million people are “economically inactive” — including those forced out of the labour market, have “given up” looking for work or are on long-term sick leave. The total is 7,000 higher than a year ago.

Youth unemployment was slightly higher than in January to March, at 16 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds.

And the Tories’ mass axing of government jobs has resulted in the lowest number of public-sector workers since comparable records began in 1999 — down 22,000 since December.

It is the second month in a row that jobs figures have brought bad news — following months of reducing unemployment in the run-up to the election, during which Tories batted off warnings that new jobs were insecure and badly paid and many were excluded from the figures.

Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith boasted: “Thanks to our long-term economic plan we have already seen two million more people in jobs since 2010.”

But his boss was nowhere to be seen as the chickens came home to roost. Instead he could be found promenading along the harbour at Alvor, Portugal.

The Iberian jaunt is the second of three jollies the Camerons will take this summer. They have already made their annual “staycation” to Cornwall, and they plan to visit Samantha’s posh parents in the Hebrides in a few weeks time.

Pictures show a red-faced Mr Cameron enjoying a boozy afternoon with wife Samantha in the gentrified Portuguese fishing village of Alvor.

Back in Britain, shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett fumed: “Ordinary people face a future without a job.

“David Cameron should immediately get back to Downing Street and deal with this crisis in real people’s lives.”

Mr McCluskey added: “There is a real issue that most of the jobs being created are in the lower-paid sectors and there is a proliferation of those working as self-employed, when they want full-time and permanent jobs.”

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said the news was “worrying.”

“If we want a recovery that is built to last for the long term, we need a better economic plan with more investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation to help job creation and growth,” she said.

The sharpest increase in unemployment was 8.1 per cent in north-east England, with London just behind with a rise of 6.7 per cent.

In the West Midlands there was a 6 per cent drop — with falls also recorded in the East Midlands, Scotland, Yorkshire and Wales.

Average earnings increased by 2.4 per cent in the year to June — 0.8 of a percentage point less than the rise to May.

Before setting off on their summer hols, MPs were given the go-ahead for an eye-watering 10 per cent pay rise, which Mr Cameron backed as “the rate for the job” in spite of branding it “simply unacceptable” in 2013.