Caroline launches Labour's
new Yorkshire campaign poster

29 November 2004

Home Office Minister Caroline Flint unveiled Labour's new 'Yorkshire is working' campaign today in Leeds with the launch of a poster van.

Caroline Flint MP launched the new poster van to highlight Labour's record on improving the region and the Party's plans for the future of the region.

Said Caroline "Britain is working with 2 million more jobs, and unemployment at its lowest level since 1975. Unlike the divided Britain of the Tory years, every region is working better and Yorkshire & the Humber region is a splendid example."
The Yorkshire & Humber region has seen:

• A 53% drop in unemployment; over 89,000 fewer people unemployed.
• Over 95,000 people in the region have found work through Labour's New Deal
• In this region 263 new businesses started up each week last year.
  

Said Caroline: "When Michael Howard and the Tories were last in office; interest rates were at 15% for a whole year; inflation rose to almost 10 per cent; 1.5 million households suffered negative equity; 150,000 families lost their homes and unemployment hit three million.

"The Yorkshire & the Humber region is working. Don't let the Tories wreck it again."

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