Chancellor to join G8 march
Gordon Brown has pledged to join a massive demonstration during the G8 summit next month.
The Chancellor received an invite to the forthcoming Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh.
Organisers predict hundreds of thousands will descend on the Scottish capital to make their feelings known about Third World poverty.
Mr Brown told a local radio station yesterday: “I have been invited to speak at one event and I hope that I will be able to do so.”
“We are going to support people who want to make their views known,” he said.
“People have a right to peaceful protest and that is something people should be able to do.”
Mr Brown is to press leaders at the G8 summit to double aid monies given to the world’s poorest nations.
He said the world was “angry” and “outraged” at the prevalent poverty in Africa.
“All of us are angry because throughout the course of this year, six million people will die avoidably from tuberculosis, Aids, or malaria, most of them on the continent of Africa,” he told schoolchildren in Scotland on Friday.
“And we are outraged because today 105 million children are unable to go to school.”
