Theresa May will cause more poverty than Thatcher, Gordon Brown warns

Gordon Brown speaks at the engineering department of Coventry University.The former prime minister Gordon Brown has strongly attacked Theresa May’s claim to be the champion of Britain’s struggling families, warning that the Conservative government’s welfare cuts would leave more people in poverty than under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.Writing in the Guardian, Brown highlights recent research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation showing that