Gordon Brown Archives | Our Scottish Future https://ourscottishfuture.org/category/gordon-brown/ The positive and progressive case for Scotland’s place in the Union Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:37:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://ourscottishfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-87851772_135948534617835_7452483147276484608_o-32x32.png Gordon Brown Archives | Our Scottish Future https://ourscottishfuture.org/category/gordon-brown/ 32 32 188273756 A Plan For Growth https://ourscottishfuture.org/a-plan-for-growth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-plan-for-growth Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:58:12 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6945 Our economy conference in Edinburgh yesterday set out a clear prize for Scotland: get growth rates back up to historically high levels and we have the chance of eradicating deep poverty in the country.

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]]> 6945 Scotland Can Create 300000 Jobs In A Decade of Delivery Says New Report https://ourscottishfuture.org/scotland-can-create-300000-jobs-in-a-decade-of-delivery-says-new-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scotland-can-create-300000-jobs-in-a-decade-of-delivery-says-new-report Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:56:48 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6911 Press Release: Time to set a vision to become a "post-poverty country".

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]]> 6911 Poll shows Scots believe the country is “stuck in a rut”, as poverty escalates https://ourscottishfuture.org/poll-shows-scots-believe-the-country-is-stuck-in-a-rut-as-poverty-escalates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=poll-shows-scots-believe-the-country-is-stuck-in-a-rut-as-poverty-escalates Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6597 Majority of £715m spent on Scottish social security bureaucracy would be better used in paying £2000 to families with children in poverty

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]]> 6597 Cooperation not Competition – Building a Better Britain https://ourscottishfuture.org/cooperation-not-competition-building-a-better-britain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cooperation-not-competition-building-a-better-britain Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:30:05 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=5053 Today our country needs leaders whose eyes are fixed on the future. And cooperation is the way of the future. With global problems like pandemics and climate change that cannot be solved by nation states on their own and with every country’s independence limited by their interdependence, nationalism is yesterday’s response to today’s challenges. The new Prime Minister should put constructive cooperation between our four nations at the heart of their vision for a British future.

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]]> 5053 Autonomy and Cooperation – Finding The Right Balance https://ourscottishfuture.org/autonomy-and-cooperation-finding-the-right-balance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=autonomy-and-cooperation-finding-the-right-balance Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:30:14 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=3914 "FULL fiscal autonomy would be a disaster for Scotland”. So Gordon Brown told an online Our Scottish Future audience of more than 300 people last week as he set out his vision for his nation as part of the United Kingdom.

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]]> 3914 “Cooperation Can Make Scotland a Super-Power” https://ourscottishfuture.org/cooperation-can-make-scotland-a-super-power/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cooperation-can-make-scotland-a-super-power Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:48:42 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=3891 Gordon Brown used an online speech to Our Scottish Future yesterday evening to argue that deeper cooperation between Scotland and the rest of the UK can turn Scotland from a power to a “super-power” in in key growth industries of the future.

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]]> 3891 Gordon Brown: “The Britain of Emma Raducanu Shows why Nationalists are Losing the Argument” https://ourscottishfuture.org/the-britain-of-emma-raducanu-shows-why-nationalists-are-losing-the-argument/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-britain-of-emma-raducanu-shows-why-nationalists-are-losing-the-argument Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:50:11 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=1680 The public want to bang the door shut on a decade of division sewn by austerity, referendums and culture wars. A new Britain is waiting to be born. It is economically progressive; egalitarian on race, religion, sex and gender;culturally centrist on law and order, defence and our history and traditions. It has a far stronger […]

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]]> 1680 Scotland Does Not Have The Facts on Independence, Poll Reveals https://ourscottishfuture.org/scotland-does-not-have-the-facts-on-independence-poll-reveals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scotland-does-not-have-the-facts-on-independence-poll-reveals Mon, 17 May 2021 13:26:41 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=1058 SNP Must “Open the Books”, Says Brown A clear majority of Scots do not believe the SNP has given them enough facts about independence in order to make a fully informed choice on whether to leave the Union, a new poll by Our Scottish Future reveals today.   Nearly 60% said they did not have […]

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]]> 1058 Gordon Brown: “Time to Open The Books on Options For Scotland” https://ourscottishfuture.org/open-the-books-on-options-for-scotland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-the-books-on-options-for-scotland Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:34:04 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=1002 Scots want the facts. The status quo, a reformed UK, and independence should all be exposed to expert, parliamentary, and public scrutiny Speak to Scots these days about the big constitutional questions facing our country, and there is one big thing all of us do agree on: we don’t have the facts.  Whether people are […]

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]]> 1002 Gordon Brown: “Let’s Unite Around a British Way Forward” https://ourscottishfuture.org/gordon-brown-lets-unite-around-a-british-way-forward/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gordon-brown-lets-unite-around-a-british-way-forward Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:31:00 +0000 http://18.135.138.99/?p=533 Battered by Covid, threatened by nationalism and uncertain what the promise of a post- Brexit ‘Global Britain’ adds up to, the United Kingdom must urgently rediscover what holds it together and sort out what is driving us apart. The status quo is not working and the world’s most successful experiment in multinational living is under […]

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