GORDON Brown has left a BBC presenter shocked after ending an interview abrupty.
The former Prime Minister was discussing Brexit onΒ BBC Breakfast withΒ Charlie Stayt andΒ Naga Munchetty.
Discussing the UK's latest trade negotiations with the EU and the breakdown of communications, Brown said: "You canβt sign an international treaty, what was it? 12 months ago,
βThe Prime Minister is negotiating it, he is signing it and then breaking it.Β You have got no respect.Β
βIf I was chancellor or Prime Minister people would have said the rule of law, and Boris Johnson would have been the first to say it."
Stayt interrupted: βGordon Brown, you can do this if you are a Prime Minister with a huge majority."
βBut this is a negotiating tactic,β Brown continued. βHe thinks, as he did the last time, that someone will come in and save the day for him.
βHe will make a last minute deal, he wants to go straight to the European council people.Β
βAnd he thinks Angela Merkel will accept that the rule of law might be broken and thatβs just not going to happen.β
Brown's screen then froze whenΒ answering one of Staytβs questions.
βMy fear is not just that we will have a no deal,β Brown added.
βAnd that is a real possibility, that means food and medical drugs that are vitally needed at the moment will not be coming into the country.Β
βBut we need to have a compromise, which will bring trouble for years to come.Β
βThe minute we change the level playing field, Europe will take sanctions.β
Brown then abruptly shut his laptop screen down before he had even ended the call.Β
When the cameras panned back to Stayt and Munchetty they were taken aback by the move.Β
βWell there you go,β Stayt laughed. βThatβs definitely over.β
OH MY GOD look at how Gordon Brown ended his interview pic.twitter.com/vu1pdsTS4u
β Scott Bryan (@scottygb) September 11, 2020
Twitter describedΒ Brown asΒ a "comedy king" and a "diva", with others pointing out that it is fortunate he was wearing trousers.
Here are the best reactions:
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This is how all virtual select committee proceedings should end https://t.co/9EuxOvscNO
β Adam Evans (@A_B_Evans) September 11, 2020
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Cut short just as he was giving some hard and need to know info regarding Brexit https://t.co/eKMC4RgCUv
β Joe (@Jophes86) September 11, 2020
3.
This is literally how I feel in work when teams and zoom start mucking about in calls haha https://t.co/aBtvdtA0Xy
β ππ’πΆπ ππ’πΈππ°π³ (@paullawlor23) September 11, 2020
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PSA: This will be how I end all zoom calls from this point on https://t.co/0QTLgnnWvI
β Cameron (@CamTrotts) September 11, 2020
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I approve of this - being myself prone to the non-Zoom friendly Irish tendency of saying endless goodbyes. https://t.co/ZbmjzdnjC0
β Colm O'Cinneide (@colmocinneide) September 11, 2020
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Haha! What a diva #gordonbrown #news #bbc #uk #brexit https://t.co/pueX5xPfJM
β The Family Court (@TheFamilyCourt) September 11, 2020
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When you've got previous experience of 'accidentally' being recorded after the interview is over... https://t.co/wyD9wX9f07
β Jamie Lambert (@jlambert_76) September 11, 2020
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My intended online lecture technique this year https://t.co/RWc7bDtwv8
β Scott Wortley (@Scott_Wortley) September 11, 2020
9.
This is that year 9 flip phone tea https://t.co/z0mO4ank4b
β filthy madame (@_HXYDN_) September 11, 2020
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Me at 4:59pm today. https://t.co/hqRxgJf4wf
β Matthew Williams (@MatthewW1991) September 11, 2020
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Better than a twattish wave like the rest of us https://t.co/3h1VCMLl5D
β Paul Hirons (@Son_Of_Ray) September 11, 2020
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Better than a twattish wave like the rest of us https://t.co/3h1VCMLl5D
β Paul Hirons (@Son_Of_Ray) September 11, 2020
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Actually a comedy king, we just didn't realise it in 2010. Mad how Bigotgate really wouldn't matter if it happened now. https://t.co/EPmWFjZiIB
β Bob Lloyd (@RoLloyd7) September 11, 2020
14.
Power move, showing he's fully dressed for the Zoom call. https://t.co/i8yujwwIGc
β Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic) September 11, 2020
15.
Did he just invent the Zoom 'mic drop'? https://t.co/PhjJABafM9
β Dan Smith (@DanSmith_Writer) September 11, 2020
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Gordon showing the confidence of someone who always wears trousers to his Zoom meetings https://t.co/nBvB2A7nR7
β Ed (@eknight90) September 11, 2020
17.
Itβs always awkward. May as well make it fast. https://t.co/QtnPykq5b4
β David Gallagher (@TBoneGallagher) September 11, 2020
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