A gambling tax is dead cert to end poverty for 500k kids

Move an investment where everyone wins

- BY GORDON BROWN

A POOR bookie is hard to find. A child living in poverty is difficult to miss. But right now more than 4.5million children in the UK are living in poverty - and the numbers are rising by up to 100,000 every year.

I saw extreme poverty when I was growing up in an industrial town in Scotland hit by unemployment and I am sad to see such deep poverty again stalk our country’s children.

By 2030, the first experiences of five million of our kids will be to be ill-fed, poorly clothed and badly housed.

That's why, today, the leaders of 15 antipoverty charities - from Save the Children to foodbank charity The Trussell Trust - have called for an end to the Tory two-child rule, which keeps hundreds of thousands of children in poverty.