Brown 'regrets' unemployment rise

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Last Modified: 18 Mar 2009
By: Channel 4 News

Tory leader David Cameron today accused the Prime Minister of being "in denial" over the scale of the recession as Gordon Brown said the rising jobless queue was a "matter of personal regret".

With the unemployment figure surging past 2m, Mr Brown answered the first question from Labour MP Jim Sheridan by pledging that the Government would do "everything we can" to help people get back into work.

"Any person losing their job, or in fear of losing their job, is a matter of personal regret for me and for the whole Government," he said.

"I don't regard unemployment as a statistic. I regard it as one person, a second person, a third person, who needs our help."