Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown has called on the US and Europe to lead a new era of global "interdependence" to solve issues including terrorism, poverty and climate change.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has begun secret talks with other world leaders on far-reaching reform of the United Nations Security Council as part of a drive to create a "new world order" and "global society". Brown is drawing up plans to expand the number of permanent members in a move that will provoke fears in his country that the veto enjoyed by Britain could be diluted eventually.