Gordon Brown advocates for increased gambling taxes to generate £3.2 billion aimed at lifting 500,000 children out of poverty. This funding could be utilized to eliminate the two-child limit and benefit cap affecting 1.6 million children. Critics, including the Betting and Gaming Council, argue these proposals may drive gambling to the black market. Poverty campaigners claim removing the two-child limit is crucial to combatting food insecurity. Brown highlights Britain’s alarmingly high child poverty levels, worse than during previous conservative administrations and in comparison to other European nations.
"Britain is now enduring the worst levels of child poverty since modern records began, even worse than in the Thatcher-Major years, and far worse than in most European countries."
"These are austerity's children, the victims of 14 years of Tory rule, an era whose most vindictive act was to treat newborn third and fourth children as second-class citizens, depriving them of all the income support available to their first and second siblings."
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