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

Ex-PM will warn problem may reach ‘epidemic proportions’ during speech at Edinburgh international book festivalThe 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 national disgrace that the number of children living b