A group of 101 Labour MPs have thrown their weight behind a call by Gordon Brown for the government to hike taxes on betting companies in order to tackle child poverty. Labour MP Alex Ballinger of the All-Party Parliamentary Group said there is a “compelling” case for a “targeted levy on harmful online gambling products” and that the money raised should be used to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn