Gordon Brown has warned that poverty in Britain is at its worst in over fifty years, urging the Labour leader to remove the two-child benefit cap in the next budget. He supports reforms to gambling taxes to raise the £3.2 billion necessary to remove the cap. The cap, implemented by former Chancellor George Osborne, limits benefit claims for families with third children born after April 2017. Brown stresses the urgent need for government intervention, highlighting a divided nation grappling with a social crisis after years of Conservative-led austerity.
Britain faces unprecedented poverty levels, with Gordon Brown urging action against the two-child benefit cap, asserting reforms could lift half a million children out of poverty.
Brown emphasizes the need to address the gambling industry's taxation, linking reforms to alleviate poverty, underscoring the severity of the social crisis in the UK.
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