We can break the cycle of poverty
The Child Poverty Review represents a bold attempt to reduce the number of children growing up in hardship
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Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007-2010.
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Gordon Brown: Why it’s time to take the shame out of need
As the cost-of-living crisis pushes more and more people into poverty, charities have become the last line of defence.
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The Tories’ privatisation of welfare is a catastrophe for the poorest
As the state relinquishes its duties to the vulnerable, charities are having to take its place as our country’s…
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The Britain of Emma Raducanu shows why nationalists are losing the argument
The public want to bang the door shut on a decade of division sewn by austerity, referendums and culture…
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Gordon Brown: How to mend a failing world
The former Labour prime minister on vaccinations, poverty and the climate crisis.
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How to save the United Kingdom
The pandemic has brutally exposed the dysfunctional British state. Nationalism is not the solution – but big change is…
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There is a way to outlaw tax havens – and I’ll personally tell world leaders how to do it
If a million people sign my open letter to Argentine President Mauricio Macri, chair of the G20, I will…
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Leading, not leaving: Gordon Brown makes a positive case for Europe
Our guest editor introduces a special issue of the New Statesman on Britain and Europe.
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Union does not mean uniform
Are we moving to a federal United Kingdom and a written constitution?
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