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\nMr Brown’s comments come after Andy Burnham said an Irish unity poll is ‘off the table’<\/p>\n
Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has said it is inevitable that Ireland will become united at some point in the future.<\/p>\n
He added that it would be a “long process” and have to be based on mutual agreement.<\/p>\n
Mr Brown, in an interview with The Guardian, said Northern Ireland is in a potentially different position compared to the rest of the UK, giving Scotland as an example.<\/p>\n
Asked about pressure for Scottish independence, Mr Brown said: “Scotland’s got to find a way of living in cooperation with other countries and independence would not be the right way forward.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re geographically, economically, socially, culturally linked to the rest of the United Kingdom, whether it\u2019s Wales, England or parts of Ireland.”<\/p>\n
Asked if the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic meant uniting the two made sense, he said: “Yes.<\/p>\n
“Well, of course, in the long-term, Ireland will be united.”<\/p>\n
\nMr Brown’s comments come after Andy Burnham said an Irish unity poll is ‘off the table’<\/p>\n
He said the process would be long.<\/p>\n
“People have got to come together and find a way of agreeing,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Basically, that is the issue: whether people can actually agree,” he added.<\/p>\n
Mr Brown was Tony Blair\u2019s chancellor when the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998.<\/p>\n