Gordon Brown warns ‘unemployment is not inevitable’

The former Prime Minister Gordon Brown believes that a range of measure are desperately needed to protect the job market.

Gordon Brown told ITV’s Good Morning Britain, “Unemployment is not inevitable, it is the decisions that we make to do something about it.

“Let’s listen to what people are saying about what jobs could be created, companies that are struggling that perhaps need more loans to keep going – perhaps we should convert that into equity taken by regional growth funds – and at the same time we have to get these young people into work.”

Brown added, “Of course, if it is a one-in-a-century event, you have got to say: ‘We have got to take action now to prevent worse damage later’.”