Gordon Brown & James Purnell Hold National Employment Partnership Meeting

LONDON - FEBRUARY 11: Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (L) sits with (L-R), John Denham MP, Tony McNulty MP (obscured), Grant Hearn of Travelodge Hotels, Alan Brown of Rentokil, Chris Humphries of the Commission for Employment and Skills and Rachel Robertson of Diageo during the first meeting of the National Employment Partnership at 10 Downing Street on February 11, 2009 in London, England. The meeting comes on the day that the Office of National Statistics announced that UK unemployment reached 1.97 million between the three month period of October and December. (Photo by Luke MacGregor - WPA Pool/Getty Images)