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“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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

“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 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…

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 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…

*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…