G7 Summit : Former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, attacks world leaders

Leaders of the world's most advanced economies in Biarritz, France

As a leader, Gordon Brown was not particularly charismatic. He would definitely not go down as one of the great Prime Ministers in British history. Surprisingly, this has not stopped him from descending, like a ton of bricks, on G7 leaders who are currently meeting in France. Mr Brown is amazed and saddened that the world is leaderless.

Hear the erstwhile Labour Prime Minister: “When you have got an organisation that cannot agree on a communiqué, that has got no agreed agenda, that’s got no agreement even on membership, and has broken down, as far as I can see, over the weekend into small huddles of individuals doing bilateral discussions, you’ve really got a leaderless world.

“It is rightly called by some the G-Zero because the world seems to be more divided than I can remember. And that means that the G7 is impotent.”

Brown, 68, has probably forgotten that we do not yet have a world government and so there cannot be a world leader. Although USA remains the planet's pre-eminent super power and the American President, the leader of the Western world.

At best, the healthy disagreements among the leaders and the rise of nationalism around the world can only help to postpone the emergence of a world government and the coming of the man of sin.

Mr Brown has perhaps read too much into the rows that have dominated the G7 Summit, including over President Trump’s call for the group to re-admit President Putin. Also, even before the summit started President Macron said that there would not be a final communiqué — an agreed statement backed by all the leaders — because of the divisions between them.