Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown yesterday delivered UNICEF UK’s Annual Lecture to an audience of guests and supporters from government, like-minded organisations, the media and business sectors and members of the UK Committee for UNICEF, as well as participants in UNICEF’s C8 Children’s Forum at the weekend.

The Chancellor said he felt privileged to speak about children and global poverty only days before what could be a history-making G8 Summit at Gleneagles and in advance of the special UN Summit in New York in September. He spoke emphatically about his commitment to achieving further debt relief, increased aid and trade justice, reiterating Hillary Benn’s statement, also made yesterday, that rich country barriers to trade with poorer countries are “absolutely unacceptable, they are politically antiquated, economically illiterate,...

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