Brown Reveals 'Vision For Scotland'

Friday, 21 November 2014 00:05

Gordon Brown is setting out his vision to make Scotland the education and innovation capital of Europe.

And he'll use a speech in Glasgow to outline a £200 million scheme to end youth unemployment - paid for by a UK-levied bankers' bonus tax.

The MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath will reveal details of 17 proposed new powers for the Scottish Parliament which he believes the Smith Commission should endorese.

He says his youth employment initiative would cut the number of jobless youngsters and bring back many of the 140, 000 students he says were lost under SNP cuts.

Brown will tell business leaders he wants to see a joint UK-Scotland task force on globalisation and a new organisation, Service Scotand, to empower communities in the fight against poverty.