Super-fast broadband will be available to every home in the UK by 2020, the prime minister is to promise later.

In a speech, Gordon Brown is expected to call super-fast broadband “the electricity of the digital age” which “must be for all - not just for some”.

He will warn of the risk of a “new digital divide” if the government leaves broadband supply to the market.

The Conservatives say they have made a similar pledge and have attacked a £6-a-year landline levy planned by Labour.

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