UK is experiencing worst poverty in 60 years, says Gordon Brown
"I did not think I would see the kind of poverty I saw when I was growing up, when we had slum housing, when we had travelling people coming to my school."
"I did not think I would see the kind of poverty I saw when I was growing up, when we had slum housing, when we had travelling people coming to my school."
The government is under growing pressure to scrap the two-child benefit cap.
Seven Labour MPs were stripped of the whip for backing an SNP motion to axe the welfare limit.
Child poverty rates strongly correlated with the percentage of children affected by the two-child limit in that local area, researchers said.
Current poverty levels are ‘a stain on the moral conscience of our nation’, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said.
The former prime minister has published a paper setting out possible emergency measures to tackle the issue.
There is no better time than an election year to rediscover our moral compass, says the former prime minister.
This, from Armando Iannucci, demonstrates what a real scandal looks like.
The Thick Of It creator was speaking on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme.
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