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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.
Mr Brown, who has repeatedly spoken out on the issue of child poverty, will brand the issue a “shameful epidemic” in a speech on Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Child Poverty Action Group (Cpag).
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