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‘Tackling child poverty is the challenge of our generation’

FORMER Labour First Minister Lord McConnell has called for a national campaign to end child poverty as he takes up the post of chairman with a leading Scottish children’s charity.

In an exclusive article for The Herald, the former MSP said tackling child poverty is the "challenge of our generation". epiphany in Easterhouse pushed him towards preaching a social justice agenda.