Securing the recovery is essential – Gordon Brown

Alongside a speech by Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, on the economy, the Labour Party is today publishing A Future Fair for All: Securing the recovery, not putting it at risk.The document sets out the choice that Britain faces between growth and increasing prosperity with Labour, or a decade of austerity, low growth and low employment under the Tories. To read a copy please click hereGordon Brown said:"There is nothing pre-ordained or automatic about the upturn, either here or around the world. While we have come through the worst of this dreadful storm, the waters are still choppy. There are still real risks to the recovery. And we must be alive to them."So the choices we will make in the coming months are just as important - and just as urgent - for families, jobs, mortgages and companies, large and small - as the difficult choices we made to protect them...