Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has welcomed the budget statement’s commitment to lifting children out of poverty.

Writing in the New Statesman he said:

“In one short budget intervention this afternoon, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has done more to transform the lives of 450,000  of Britain’s poorest children than any of the seven previous Conservative chancellors, who, in 14 long years, did nothing but harm to the lives of vulnerable children.

“The measure that lifts so many out of poverty at a stroke is the abolition of the two-child benefit cap. Ending the two-child rule is more than securing the immediate release of children from poverty. It is an invest-now-save-later policy designed, as an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published Child Poverty Review says, “to help people succeed”, with improved educational outcomes and greater adult earnings, which will ultimately pay for itself with higher tax receipts.

“I thank the Chancellor for her decisive stand in favour of childhood equality.”

You can read Mr Brown’s article in the New Statesman clicking here: