Gordon Brown has called for a “war against poverty” to combat escalating rates of deprivation in the North East.
The former Prime Minister has warned that rising food and energy bills will “savage” standards of living in the coming months and called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to reverse the £20 cut to Universal Credit cut from last October.
He was speaking to an audience of city leaders in Newcastle during a virtual discussion on Tuesday evening about closing the nation’s poverty gap, the Government’s levelling up agenda, and the challenges posed by climate change.
