A majority of voters back hiking taxes on the profits of gambling firms in order to fight child poverty.
The poll shared with the Mirror shows 64% of people support the idea recently championed by the former Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Just 14% of 8,000 surveyed said they would oppose the increased levy on gambling companies to help reduce the number of children in poverty.
The poll by Survation for the campaign group 38 Degrees comes as the government prepares to publish the long-awaited child poverty strategy in the autumn.
Mr Brown – the Chancellor between 1997 and 2007 – said hitting the “massively undertaxed profits” of gambling companies could generate £3.2billion.
