Full text of Gordon Brown’s speech to the TUC

guardian.co.uk – 15/09/2009

The Prime Minister’s speech at the TUC congress on 15th September 2009, verbatim. Here are a few snippets:

• “This is not the moment to cut apprenticeships this is the time for government to support them.  So I can tell you that we will provide 21,000 additional apprenticeships in the public sector this year.“
• “I want a new industrial policy to signal the creation of 1.5 million new jobs for the future — jobs in green industries, in making the low carbon cars that Britain is leading Europe in developing, in new digital services.“
• “I believe that the fight for fairness must include agency workers, and so I pledge to you today that when parliament returns our new legislative programme will include equal treatment for agency workers and that in the coming few months the law will be on the statute book.“
• “we will remove unfair tax reliefs on higher income earners” and “we will raise the top rate of tax to 50p for those on the very highest incomes.“
• “we will put the apprenticeship programme on a statutory basis and ensure that an apprenticeship place is available for every suitably qualified young person by 2013.“

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