Get our daily email briefing straight to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailFormer PM Gordon Brown is launching a radical UK-wide campaign to stop the coronavirus fallout triggering massive unemployment. (Image: Getty Images)Dan Jarvis, Mayor of Sheffield City Region, said the move would prove the value of communities pulling together. “Our union is delighted to join Gordon Brown and others in making the case for urgent state intervention to save and create jobs. Our campaign demands: Extend the furlough scheme beyond end of October for the hardest hit sectors and those areas placed in local lockdown. Even a Bank of England forecast more optimistic than its early predictions warned unemployment could hit 2.5 million, or 7.5%, by the end of 2020.

Source: Daily Mirror September 09, 2020 20:11 UTC