Gordon Brown has called for the creation of a multibillion-pound national poverty programme using interest levied on bank reserve funds as part of an emergency plan to halt Britain’s slide into a “hungry decade” of destitution and hardship.
The former UK prime minister said the programme would signify a break with 14 years of austerity and help provide short term “pain relief” to millions of people in desperate hardship, alongside an overhaul of Britain’s welfare safety net.
