Gordon Brown, the UK Prime Minister, said he was travelling the globe "trying to build a new consensus" and that he was confident that next month's G20 meeting in London would prove effective. His comments were made in an interview with Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, which can be viewed at http://www.europe.WSJ.com.

Brown's interview with The Wall Street Journal in New York were part of efforts by the UK Prime Minister and the US president Barack Obama to drum up international co-operation to tackle the financial crisis.