Former prime minister says country is at risk of famine and UK must take lead in resuming delivery of aid• The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is morally wrongGordon Brown has written to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, c…
Gordon Brown warns 3.5m households face fuel poverty this winter
Former prime minister says 2021 ‘worst time to be poor’ as he calls for support for struggling householdsThe former prime minister Gordon Brown has demanded fresh government financial support for households struggling to pay energy bills as he warned a…
Gordon Brown: universal credit cut ‘vindictive and indefensible’
Ex-PM writes in Guardian that with prices of basics set to ‘rocket’, £20 a week cut is illogical and callousBrown: ‘£20 cut is most morally indefensible thing I’ve seen in politics’Gordon Brown has called the government’s decision to cut £20 a week fro…
Gordon Brown calls for urgent action to avert ‘Covid vaccine waste disaster’
More than 100m doses could be discarded by December if global leaders do not share jabs with poorest countries, warns former PMMore than 100m Covid vaccine doses are due to expire and be “thrown away” unless global leaders urgently share surplus suppli…
West will kill thousands if it keeps on hoarding vaccines, says Gordon Brown
Former UK prime minister urges rich nations to transfer unused supplies to countries in desperate need‘The west has no excuse not to share vaccines’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHoarding of vaccines by wealthy western nati…
The Guardian view on ‘levelling up’ schools: a slogan without substance | Editorial
Labour should have a policy to deal with rich people seceding from the rest of society by buying social privilegeGordon Brown gave substance to the slogan of “levelling up”. In 2006, he said that his “long-term aim” was to fund state school pupils at t…
Gordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine supplies
Former UK prime minister calls on western leaders to convene summit to address Africa’s vaccine deficitGordon Brown: the world is making billions of Covid vaccine doses, so why is Africa not getting them?Gordon Brown has accused the EU of adopting a “n…