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Gordon Brown: 'This can't go on – 4.3 million people in poverty is unsustainable'

Gordon Brown is one of the driving forces behind multibanks – hubs providing what should be basic products to those ...
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Gordon Brown calls for gambling tax to cut child poverty

Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has repeated his call for higher taxes on gambling to lift half a million children out of poverty. He has backed a think tank report from the Institute for ...
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Rachel Reeves has made costly mistakes – but she’ll never match Gordon Brown’s horrorshow

Reeves has shown the same great clunking instinct. In her first Budget, she slapped inheritance tax on unused defined contribution pension pots. In her second, she went after pensions salary sacrifice ...
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Mandelson's 2005 general election warning to Blair about rival Brown

Former US ambassador Peter Mandelson warned Tony Blair not to allow Gordon Brown to wreck Labour's 2005 general election ...
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Voices: Rachel Reeves won’t thank Gordon Brown for his tax advice

When he appeared on the BBC this morning, former prime minister Gordon Brown said he was “not here to second-guess Rachel Reeves’s economic policy”, adding: “I don’t want to be a back-seat driver.” If ...

Peter Mandelson’s 2005 general election warning to Tony Blair over Gordon Brown

Files released to the National Archives show that Peter Mandelson warned Tony Blair that tensions with his chancellor would ...