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Brown think tank lays out plan for ‘decade of delivery’ to create 300,000 jobs

Source: PA Wire

The think tank started by former prime minister Gordon Brown has laid out a plan it claims will create 300,000 jobs through a “decade of delivery”.

Ahead of a conference in Edinburgh on Thursday, Our Scottish Future published a report on how to increase economic growth in Scotland, which it claims would also lift 100,000 people on “poverty pay” into higher paying work.

The report urges

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