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Gordon Brown calls for government to tax bookies to scrap two-child benefit cap

Gordon Brown calls for government to tax bookies to scrap two-child benefit cap

Gordon Brown has called for the abolition of the two-child benefit cap, warning that “austerity’s children” are paying the price for past political decisions.

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