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Hello, I'm Anous Shekelian and this is Politics from The New Statesman.

Today we're bringing you a special episode of the podcast with Gordon Brown.

The former Prime Minister has guest edited this week's edition of the magazine, focusing on an issue which has been at the centre of his work since leaving office, child poverty.

I spoke to him earlier this week in a multi-bank centre run by the Felix Project, London's largest food redistribution charity. We discussed the soaring rates of child poverty in the UK,

how the government should tackle this, and where Brown stands on the two child benefit cap.

We're going to be hearing this shortly in the episode, but I'm joined now by my colleague Kate Mossman,

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