article_snippet.sent: Mr Brown was speaking during a joint event with local Labour candidate and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander at Elderslie Village Hall in Renfrewshire.
article_snippet.sent: The former prime minister also said that Labour will hold an economic summit immediately after the General Election to boost jobs, expand city deals, encourage investment and provide jobs and training for young people.
article_snippet.sent: Unfortunately for Gordon Brown's speech this morning simply reminds people once again of how Labour stood shoulder to shoulder with the Tories for two and a half years to talk Scotland down. '
article_snippet.sent: The question Labour's current leadership have repeatedly failed to answer is if there are more anti-Tory MPs - between the SNP and Labour - than there are Tory MPs, will there are more anti-Tory MPs - between the SNP and Labour - than there are Tory MPs work with us to lock the Tories out and to deliver better policies for people not just in Scotland but across the rest of the UK. '
article_snippet.sent: A strong team of SNP MPs can give Labour the backbone to oppose further cuts and pursue a progressive alternative to austerity.'
article_snippet.sent: From left, Anas Sarwar MP, former prime minister Gordon Brown and former leader of the Scottish Labour party Johann Lamont attend the Scottish Labour campaign launch to keep Scotland part of the UK in 2013 .
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Brown urged people to vote Labour to end bedroom tax, food bank poverty, zero-hours contracts and the neglect of the NHS .