PM Visits Corby
February 14, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Earlier this week, BBC News met three former Woolworths workers, struggling to find new jobs. After hearing that Prime Minister Gordon Brown had said that jobs were being created, one of them, Evelyn Downey, challenged him to “come to Corby and show me where they are, because I can’t find any”.
Mr Brown agreed to meet them. BBC economics reporter Steven Duke was in Corby to hear how the meeting went.
Sat in an out-of-town supermarket cafe, you get to overhear plenty of conversation tit-bits, but you tend not to hear, “When I meet the Prime Minister later I’m going to tell him…”
Three former Woolworths workers that the BBC interviewed a few days ago are having that very conversation.
The Prime Minister is in town to speak to students at the official opening of the impressive new Corby Business Academy, and he’s agreed to meet our jobseekers - Evelyn, Frances and Steve.
