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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Aine Fox

Gordon Brown to issue warning on ‘shameful epidemic’ of child poverty in Britain

Gordon Brown is set to issue a stark warning that child poverty represents both the UK's most significant social division and its greatest long-term economic threat.

The former Labour leader is also expected to intensify calls for Chancellor Rachel Reeves to increase taxes on gambling companies to find the lifting of the two-child benefit cap.

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