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Gordon Brown issues warning over child poverty - 'shameful epidemic'

Gordon Brown issues warning over child poverty - 'shameful epidemic'

Former Labour PM Gordon Brown is expected to pile further pressure on the government to scrap the two-child benefit limit as he delivers a key speech on poverty

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