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Gordon Brown has called for the two-child benefit cap to be scrapped in an exclusive interview with ITV News Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker

Former Prime Minister and Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown has put pressure on the government to scrap the two-child benefit cap, describing rising child poverty in the UK as a "cancer in our society".

"You cannot have a situation where under a Labour government, child poverty numbers just go up and up, and up," he said in an exclusive interview with ITV News.

The former political heavyweight has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to end the controversial policy that is estimated to affect 1.5 million children across the country.

"You cannot leave unaddressed something that is a cancer in our society, whi

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