Gordon Brown to attack Britain's failure to tackle child poverty

Gordon Brown said the tax credits Labour had introduced decreased the number of children living in poverty, but the number has risen since he lost the general election in 2010.The former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown will launch a scathing attack on the failure to deal with rapidly rising child poverty on Wednesday and warn that Britain is creating a generation of children whose sufferings are never talked about.Speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival, Brown will say it is a n