Cost of living crisis: Former PM calls for emergency COBRA meetings. Gordon Brown 'seeing poverty I did not expect to see again' as he warns people will go hungry and cold within months #GordonBrown #CostOfLiving #UK

"Demanding further intervention from the government, he set out his own vision for dealing with the cost of living crisis, including changing the windfall tax, a cap on energy bills and reforming the benefits system. 

Advertisement But he ruled out his own return to frontline politics, telling Sky News: "When you're out, you're out." 

Mr Brown said he is campaigning heavily on the cost of living crisis because he is seeing poverty in his hometown, Fife, "that I did not expect to see ever again in my lifetime". 

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