'No end to recession' under Tories

8:03am Thursday 20th November 2008

The recession would last until "doomsday if David Cameron was Prime Minister", the joint leader of the country's biggest trade union will say.

Derek Simpson of Unite will tell a conference he believed there would be no stimulus for the economy if the Conservatives were in power.

He will tell a meeting in Harrogate of community health workers: "There would be cuts in public spending, public servants would lose their jobs and vulnerable families would lose the support they desperately need.

"The current generation of parents are Thatcher's children. They had badly funded schools and a social services network bled dry by Tory cost cutting. Among this generation is an army of the poorly educated and economically deprived.

"All that stands between them and disaster is the support of social and health services."

Mr Simpson will pledge to urge the Prime Minister to increase training places for community health workers as a recession begins to bite, adding: "I have feeling that Gordon's ready to listen.

"Throughout the recession your client list will grow and you need support, support which the Conservatives have dismissed out of hand."