You don't need me to predict it. We all experienced it. Don't ever let them con us into boom and bust again. Families of three generations with nobody bringing in a wage. Record youth unemployment.
Unemployment is never a price worth paying.
The New Deal has helped nearly a million people with work or training, the largest ever jobs programme Britain has seen. The Working Families' Tax Credit makes work pay for over a million families. Childcare and training has helped 150,000 women find work or get a better job. A women wrote to me recently and said that, for the first time in her life, thanks to the Working Families' Tax Credit, she could afford a holiday and thanks to the Social Chapter, she was entitled to one. And we have introduced the democratic right, delivered after 100 years of trying, to be represented by a trade union should you want it.