Labour Metro Mayors, Welsh First Minister, former PM Gordon Brown and council leaders across Britain call on Chancellor to step up help as 3 million more Britons become fuel poor
ALLIANCE FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT PRESS RELEASE embargo – 18.00hrs Wednesday, March 17, 2022 Labour leaders warn April will bring biggest fall in living standards for 50 years.3 million more Britons will become fuel poor in the next two weeks.Fuel poverty numbers could go far beyond 8m by October without government…
AFFE REBOOT BRITAIN Press Release & Report
Press Release Alliance for Full Employment Wednesday 28 April 2021, Alliance for Full Employment report calls on government to reboot Britain and build back UK online as our research reveals Two million school children have been digitally excluded from their own education At least 400,000 school children have no way to get online at…
BUDGET 2021: Sunak must out match the looming unemployment tragedy or betray a generation
“Government complacency is betraying a generation of unemployed” says former PM, Gordon Brown Only 3 in every 1000 under 25s without a job have accessed Kickstart “Scandalous failure” says Brown that not one jobless adult has yet been helped by RestartBudget must “out match the scale of the looming unemployment…
Budget 2021
Budget 2021 – Kickstart Kickstart & Restart Restart You can download the full report here: Download
MORE THAN 900,000 UK SMALL BUSINESSES ‘AT RISK’ OF FAILING BY EARLY APRIL
Crisis is so extensive that 2.5m jobs are in jeopardy A major wave of bankruptcies for UK firms looms as many current business support programmes expire at the end of March and April, according to research published today by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and the Alliance for Full…
The Ongoing Wave
The Ongoing Wave – The Failure of the UK Government to Measure Unemployment, and the Urgent Need for New Measures to Create Jobs You can download the full report here: Download
LEVELLING UP AGENDA & GREEN DEAL SET BACK BY THREE YEARS BY BRITISH EXIT FROM THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK, SAYS BROWN
LETTER TO MPs SAYS 72 PER CENT OF THE PUBLIC BELIEVE UK WORKING WITH OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES BENEFITS EVERYONE. 66 PER CENT WANT THE UK TO REMAIN A MEMBER OF HORIZON AND 61 PER CENT A MEMBER ERASMUS – TWO PROGRAMMES, ALONG WITH A JOINT VENTURE WITH THE EIB, WHICH…
GORDON BROWN SAYS CHANCELLOR MUST STAND-BY POOR FAMILIES IN NEXT WEEK’S MINI BUDGET
6 MILLION FAMILIES FACING CUT OF £20 A WEEK MUST NOT BE ABANDONED SAYS FORMER PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN MILLIONS MORE NOW HAVE LITTLE OR NO SAVINGS AND WILL GO INTO DEBT TO BUY EVEN THE MOST BASIC OF CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PRESENTS NEW ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMME NEEDED AS CHILD POVERTY – ALREADY 4.2MILLION – DEEPENS …
House of Lords Support for Jobs Alliance Grows
Former Unite General Secretary, Tony Woodley says he will prioritise campaigning for the Alliance for Full Employment following his installation in the House of Lords later this month.Tony, from Wallasey, Merseyside began his working life at 15, as a steward with the Ocean Steam Ship Company. He was taken on at…
ALLIANCE FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT PETITION GOVERNMENT. ONE MILLION REASONS TO SIGN TO LET THE YOUNG WORK
One million young people are starting November without a job – and thousands more will lose their jobs after furlough extension ends on December 2Research for the Alliance for Full Employment predicts we need 1.5 m places to get all young people into work or trainingFurther Lockdown increases the need…
Gordon Brown reveals how government can get ahead of the current and upcoming crisis as he addresses British Chambers of Commerce conference today
Speaking to the British Chambers of Commerce virtual conference this afternoon the Former PM will say: This springs liquidity crisis threatens to become this winter’s solvency crisis unless the government gets ahead of the crisis curve Citing evidence from France, Germany, Sweden and Singapore Brown says UK Growth and Future funds…
Leading Economist Robert Skidelsky joins AFFE call for a Youth Job & Training Guarantee Scheme
One of the world’s most renowned and influential economists and philosophers, Robert Skidelsky, has given his backing to the Alliance of Full Employment’s call on the government to fully fund a youth job guarantee scheme. Lord Skidelsky, a crossbench peer, a fellow of the Royal Academy and celebrated biographer of…
Sir Vince Cable and Baron Kenneth Baker back AFFE’s plan to keep Britain working.
More senior political figures, including a former Liberal Democrat leader and a former member of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet, have endorsed the Alliance for Full Employment and its economic vaccination plan to protect millions of jobs from looming catastrophe. Sir Vince Cable, who led the Lib Dems before entering Coalition government…
Cross party support for Alliance for Full Employment grows
Cross party support for AFFE is growing following an appeal from the Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday (Sunday) to support full employment as “a moral concern” And today (Monday), amidst AFFE warnings that youth unemployment will hit 1 million by the end of this month, a former Conservative Minister and two key worker unions, Unison…
Alliance For Full Employment Youth Report & call on PM to convene jobs summit
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CALL FOR JOHNSON TO CONVENE UK SUMMIT OF UK NATIONS AND REGIONS AS IT IS REVEALED THAT ONE MILLION UNDER 25s WILL BE UNEMPLOYED BY NOVEMBER UNDER 25s SUFFERED 60% OF POST MARCH REDUNDANCIES AND MALE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT NOW HEADING TO 20 PER CENT FORMER PM BROWN TELLS…
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for full cross-party support for Alliance For Full Employment as multi-faith leaders pledge their support
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FORMER PM GORDON BROWN WELCOMES THEIR ENDORSEMENT OF Full EMPLOYMENT AS A “MORAL” CONCERN The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Moderator of the Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Archbishops of Edinburgh and Arundel & Brighton and the Head of Mission at the Methodist Church in Britain have joined senior…
Northern Ireland tops the league table for the toughest place in Britain to find work.
Former PM Gordon Brown says Northern Ireland should join the new UK wide Alliance For Full Employment. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has appealed to Northern Ireland’s politicians, business leaders, clerics, unions and voluntary sector to join the UK wide Alliance for Full Employment(AFFE) this afternoon.He made his call whilst addressing Stormont’s all-parliamentary banking group this afternoon…
Alliance For Full Employment joins forces with Big Issue
“Coronavirus must not lead to a new homeless generation.” Gordon Brown writes for The Big Issue Gordon Brown has written exclusively for The Big Issue magazine to explain why the nation must band together to prevent mass unemployment and why his new campaign, The Alliance For Full Employment, is the…
Gordon Brown urges Sunak to rewrite recovery plan and call jobs summit
*GORDON BROWN TO WARN THAT JOBLESS ‘COVID GENERATION’ OF AT LEAST 500,000 YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BEING CONDEMNED TO A ‘NO WORK, NO HOPE’ FUTURE BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT’S ‘INADEQUATE’ KICKSTART SCHEME *FIX FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS IN WINTER RECOVERY PLAN, FORMER PM WILL TELL CHANCELLOR RISHI SUNAK: ‘YOU HAVE TO DELIVER NEW ECONOMIC MEASURES…
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says UK jobs market is now a “jobs lottery.”
Odds of getting a job now worst in 50 years. Government have just “days” to act to stop jobs catastrophe. FORMER Prime Minister, Gordon Brown will tell Labour Party’s Connected Conference (Sept 22) that finding a job in Britain today now comes with lottery style odds of higher than 4000:1Giving the Alliance…
1,200 local Labour leaders call on PM to introduce targeted furlough to stop mass unemployment
1,200 Labour council leaders, mayors, and councillors from across the UK have written to Boris Johnson, urging him to rethink plans to scrap furlough outright and instead implement a targeted financial support scheme to prevent mass unemployment as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The letter outlines the signatories’ support…
We must demand new deal to halt tsunami of mass unemployment
This article first appeared on Mirror.co.uk It is time to tackle this Government head on – and demand a new deal to stave off the worst recession in modern history and halt the coming tsunami of mass unemployment. To accelerate urgent action, English Labour mayors and Scottish and Welsh Labour…
UK-wide Alliance for Full Employment formed to help economic recovery
*UK-WIDE ALLIANCE FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT FORMED, UNITING REGIONS AND NATIONS OF UNITED KINGDOM *GORDON BROWN CALLS FOR BANK OF ENGLAND TO ADOPT NEW EMPLOYMENT TARGET *DEMAND FOR POST-OCTOBER 31 EXTENSION OF FURLOUGH IN KEY SECTORS, WAGE SUPPORT FOR EMPLOYEES SENT HOME IN LOCAL LOCKDOWNS AND FULLY-FUNDEDYOUTH EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE An Alliance…