→ Gordon Brown’s commitment to tackling poverty, especially poverty impacting children, is manifest. His route since leaving Downing Street in 2010 has not been conventional. As an ex-PM, chancellor and the man whose leadership saved the world from financial ruin in 2008, he could have been high on the hog, charging a fortune for speaking engagements and advisory roles. Instead, he is involved with a collection of organisations, from the UN and WHO through to those at the grassroots, fighting poverty; he was a long-time advocate for scrapping the two-child benefit cap before Labour capitulated. Just recently, ahead of Labour’s child poverty strategy finally appearing, both Lucy Powell and Bridget Phillipson, one of the strategy’s architects, beat a path to his door for photo-ops and, you’d imagine, advice. The old…
