By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – British employers cut their hiring of permanent staff via recruitment firms for the first time in nearly two years in October as the country’s political upheaval added to concerns about the economy, a survey showed on Thursday. With the Bank of England now warning of the risk of the longest recession in at least a century, permanent placements fell for the first time since February 2021, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said. Hiring of temporary workers stagnated and wage growth for permanent new staff was its weakest in a year and a half. …