To tackle child poverty properly, we must as bold as when we created the welfare state

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→ Gordon Brown’s commitment to tackling poverty, especially poverty impacting children, is manifest. His route since leaving Downing Street in 2010 has not been conventional. As an ex-PM, chancellor a