Britain has not seen poverty for more than half a century, Gordon brown Warned urging Sir ker stormer To scrap Two-child profit hats In the next budget.
Former Prime Minister and Labor Chancellor – who said “we are working with a divided Britain” and a “social crisis” – supported Gambling taxes improve To generate £ 3.2bn required to scrap the cap.
Mr. Brown said that the gambling industry is “under tax”, throwing his weight behind a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), stating that about half a million children said Can be taken out of poverty Through reforms.
Two children Profit -TopiThe Tory was installed by the former Chancellor George OsborneParents prevent the father -father from claiming profit for any third or later child born after April 2017.
Speaking to the Today’s Today program, the former Labor Prime Minister issued a warning about the state of Britain after 14 years of penance under Conservative, urged the present government to take action.
“Look, we are working with a divided Britain. We are dealing with a social crisis. We are working with poor children who are saying that you are different life … We are talking about children who are far from the mainstream, and something is to be done”, he said.
“This problem is deteriorating. It is going to deteriorate over the next few years, as there is a built-in escalator in poverty figures due to two-child rules.”
He said: “I live in the constituency in which I grew up. I still live here. I see every day that this situation is getting worse, and I did not think when I was growing up, I will see the kind of poverty when I was slum housing, when we used to travel to people coming to our school.
“This is a return to poverty of 60 years ago, and I think we have got to work now, and that is why it is necessary that we take action in this budget, to pay for half a million children to work with tax in this budget.”
Talking to ITV, he said: “You may not have a situation where a labor is under the government, child poverty The number simply goes up and up, and goes up. ,
Sir Kir Stamor It is believed to be in favor of scrapping the cap personally, but after many expensive U-turn and A A new report by top economists warns that Chancellor is facing £ 51bn black hole in public financeThere are increasing questions on how the Prime Minister will be able to fund such a step.
But Mr. Brown urged the government that “there is a cancer in our society, which is growing up children and there are children who are sick and hungry in school.”
The MPs across the labor have repeatedly urged the Prime Minister to reduce or reduce the boundary amid the growing concern towards the party.
Critics of the policy say that this removal will be the most effective way to reduce hair poverty amid warnings that more than 100 children are pulled into poverty every day on the border.
However, it is believed that a decision on the cap will not be taken until the government publishes its child poverty strategy, which is now delayed by autumn.
Mr. Brown said that he understands that Rachel Reeves has “a very difficult fiscal situation inherited, but warned:” The government has a direct option in the budget: gambling will not build our country for the next generation, but poverty -free children will do. ,
After an IPPR report, his comments urged the government to see measures Which can increase £ 3.2 billion How to play gambling taxes have been suggested to increase taxes from 21 percent to 50 percent on online casinos and they have been increased from 20 percent to 50 percent on slots and gaming machines.
The organization proposed to increase general betting duty from 15 percent to 25 percent at non-racing stakes, stating that it would bring other sports in accordance with the rates paid by horset.
The IPPR said that increasing such gambling taxes will not be likely to reduce overall government revenue.
But a spokesperson of betting and gaming council dismissed “economically careless, factually misleading” proposals, which “growing, unsafe, irregular gambling risk a large number of driving in the black market, which does not protect consumers and contributes zero tax”.
He said: “Further tax moves, fresh from the back of government reforms, which will cost more than one billion sector in lost revenue, for more damage than good – for pus, for pus, jobs, development and public finance.”
Treasury has been approached for comment.
