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Prime minister Gordon Brown is today expected to unveil plans aimed at achieving his desire to create "a British job for every British worker".

In his first speech to the TUC as Britain's premier, Mr Brown will outline measures designed to create an additional 500,000 jobs for the country's workers.

According to reports, plans to be announced by the prime minister include initiatives aimed at getting lone parents and the long-term unemployed back into work.

Mr Brown is also expected to announce plans to expand partnerships between key employers and local job centres when he addresses the TUC's annual congress in Brighton.

The prime minister will also stress his belief that there are still too many over-16s who are not in further education, training or work. As such, Mr Brown is reportedly set to announce that this summer's school leavers will be offered the guarantee of a place on a pre-apprenticeship course or in college by the end of the month.

Meanwhile it has been claimed that the premier will outline details of a scheme to force more migrants from outside the European Union to pass English language tests before they can be given permission to work in the UK.

A Downing Street spokesman said: "The prime minister believes that, with jobs today available for more than 30 million people in the country, we can – if we make the right decisions – advance closer to full employment than ever before in our history, so that there is a British job for every British worker."

But the Conservatives claimed that Mr Brown's proposals were "about grabbing the headlines".

Shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling insisted that the majority of new jobs created since Labour came to power in 1997 had gone to people moving into the UK from other countries.

"The reality is that one in five households in Britain is workless and youth unemployment is higher than it was ten years ago," he stressed.

"Mr Brown's claims about a British job for every British worker are all about grabbing the headlines and bear no relation to what's really going on in Britain today."