LONDON, 25 January, 2021, (TON): The United Kingdom could become a failed state unless it is fundamentally reformed for many people have lost faith in the way country is being governed, says the former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.

“I believe the choice is now between a reformed state and a failed state,” Brown wrote in the Daily newspaper. “It is indeed Scotland where dissatisfaction is so deep that it threatens the end of the United Kingdom.”

According to Brown, who thought of London in that way where it is a common refrain, reflecting the frustration of people in outlying communities, feel they are the forgotten men and women, virtually invisible to Whitehall,”

Brown said Prime Minister Boris Johnson should reform the way the United Kingdom is governed.

“Battered by Covid-19, threatened by nationalism, and uncertain what the promise of a post-Brexit ‘Global Britain’ adds up to, the United Kingdom must urgently rediscover what holds it together and sort out what is driving us apart,” he said.

The five-year Brexit crisis plus the COVID-19 crisis have weakened the bonds that bind England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland into a $3 trillion economy.