Boris loves to spout Latin... but he’ll never say mea culpa
Brown blasts PM over job losses
THOUSANDS of people applying for a single job vacancy could become the new normal unless Boris Johnson acts now to save jobs, Gordon Brown has warned.
He also called for the Prime Minister to apologise for mistakes instead of doubling down on errors.
Mr Brown said: “He speaks a lot of Latin, but the two words you’ll never hear him say are ‘mea culpa’.”
It comes as Mr Brown launches a campaign to prevent huge unemployment.
Amid warnings the jobless total could surge from less than
1.4 million to as high as 4.1 million by the end of the year, the former Labour PM is heading a new national jobs coalition.
The Alliance for Full Employment is backed by the mayors of big cities plus Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford and Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard.
Speaking during a Mirror Q&A session, hosted on our Facebook page, Mr Brown warned that Britain was currently facing
“the biggest employment crisis for probably over 100 years” due to the pandemic. He told Mirror associate editor Kevin Maguire: “We’ve got 1,000 people applying for a receptionist job, one job, in Central London, 1,500 applying for another in the Midlands, 2,000 applying for one single administrative job in Coventry.
“It’s like the lottery and the odds are against you. “We’ve got to come together and deal with the problem of creating... jobs.” Mr Brown said Mr Johnson’s government must “change the furlough scheme” to help “those hardest hit”.
He also called for the Tory PM to prop up struggling UK firms by buying shares. He said: “You’ve got to keep these... companies going so that they can continue to employ people.
“But if you’re just going to call back loans and leave it in the hands of the banks these companies will be dead.”