BBC: Gordon Brown has urged the UN to use the “full weight of the international community” to isolate the “illegitimate” state of Zimbabwe.

In a statement to MPs on this week’s G8 summit, he said there was a “growing international coalition for change”. He also outlined G8 action on oil and food prices and climate change, including a target to halve global carbon emissions by 2050. Tory leader David Cameron also hailed the “real progress” made on Zimbabwe.  And he praised Mr Brown for helping to ensure it was at the top of the agenda at the summit in Toyako, northern Japan.

But he urged more progress on an arms embargo and on sanctions against members of President Robert Mugabe’s government.

“On sanctions against the regime and on not recognising the legitimacy of the government, real progress was made and he is to be congratulated on the role he played in that.

“The key is now to translate those words at the G8 into an effective UN resolution,” said Mr Cameron.

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