SCOTTISH and UK governments should be working together to tackle “completely unacceptable” levels of poverty, according to former prime minister Gordon Brown.

Mr Brown made the remarks speaking at the Edinburgh Book Festival, after his think tank — Our Scottish Future — published a survey showing 53 per cent of respondents agreed that after a “decade of constitutional debate, Scotland now feels stuck in a rut.”

Just weeks after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to keep the two-child cap, Mr Brown urged politicians to ditch the “Punch and Judy show” that he said characterised Scottish and UK government relations  and “work together in the interests of the people of Scotland.”