"We cannot, alas, save every job. What we can do is give people the skills to find and create new and better jobs," Johnson (pic) will say in a speech, according to excerpts sent by his office. "We're transforming the foundations of the skills system so that everyone has the chance to train and retrain."
LONDON: Britain will launch training options for adults to learn new skills in an effort to boost productivity and help the country recover from the coronavirus crisis, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce on Tuesday.
The unemployment rate, already at over 4%, is expected to rise further as a job subsidy scheme put in place early in the pandemic expires next month to be replaced by a scaled-back job support programme.
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