Paul Blomfield, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central, has called on the Government to urgently put in place a jobs plan in order to tackle rising overall unemployment, and particularly rising youth unemployment. Today's unemployment figures reveal 1 million young people are now out of work. In Sheffield Central constituency the unemployment rate now stands at 8.1%, an increase of 20.4% ...

The Labour Government has announced additional action to create jobs and ensure that a generation is not lost to unemployment. The announcement includes 47,000 new jobs for young people and the long term unemployed, funded by the £1bn Future Jobs Fund. The fund will go on to create 150,000 new jobs in total. Yvette Cooper, Labour’s Work and Pensions Secretary, also launched a new n...

The Prime Minister on 29 June published a plan for Building Britain’s Future. It is a radical vision for a fairer, stronger and more prosperous society. Public service entitlements will for the first time be guaranteed to parents, patients and communities. New measures will also drive economic growth and create jobs. Labour's prospective MP for Truro and Falmouth said: "People in Cornwa...

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, today held a press conference at Labour HQ on the future of the economy. Gordon Brown said: "This is not a game show, or just a TV spectacle, it is a General Election to decide your future: your future security, your future jobs, your future prosperity. "There is one party in this campaign that wants the focus to be on policy and on subs...

Gordon Brown yesterday became a blogger, writing for the new 'Building Britain's Future' blog. In the Prime Minister's first blog article he wrote: I have today published the Government's plan for Building Britain's Future. It is a radical vision for a fairer, stronger and more prosperous society for all. We have made enormous strides, driving up standards of health c...

While the government is concerned by rising unemployment among 18-to 24-year-olds, the older age group of men is at risk of again becoming "a lost generation" as they lose their jobs, a coalition of organisation said

Clive Betts, Labour MP for Sheffield South East, has attacked Sheffield Hallam MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Lib Dem Leader, Nick Clegg's speech on worrying unemployment figures released yesterday, calling it "complacent and contradictory". "With unemployment rising above 2.5 million, youth unemployment increasing to 972,000, and the economic recovery stalled, we need a real plan for jobs if ...

Nick Clegg criticises Prime Minister for not backing up job announcements with the necessary targeted investment In the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the Budget announcement Nick urged the Prime Minister to target investment more effectively to create new jobs for today's unemployed. At a time when unemployment in the UK has exceeded 2 million, the Prime Minister has ...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives details of a plan to create jobs as part of an initiative to curb rising unemployment.

Labour publishes A Future Fair for All: New industries, future jobs. Labour today publishes A Future Fair for All: New industries, future jobs, which sets out Labour's policies for long term economic success and highlights the risk posed by the Tories' old-fashioned ideological rejection of any role for government in equipping our firms and people for a global economy. To read a copy of ...