Anger over Mugabe election recount

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President Mugabe ignored a call from an emergency summit of neighbouring leaders to publish the results of the polls - which have now been kept secret for two weeks.

They are believed to show he lost the presidential poll but secured enough support to force a run-off with the Movement for Democratic Change, led by Morgan Tsvangirai.

Instead, officials announced a partial recount of around one in ten of the 210 constituencies, enough to reverse the MDC's victory in the parliamentary elections.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called on the international community to leave Mr Mugabe "in absolutely no doubt at all...that he is living on borrowed time".

"I am extremely worried about reports this morning of partial recounts of some hand-picked constituencies," he told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend. "That looks to me dangerously like another attempt to reinvent the results of the elections".

The Prime Minister stepped into the controversy, denouncing the "appalling" situation and warning Mr Mugabe that the world's patience was "running thin".

Human Rights groups such as Amnesty International reported credible information suggesting a programme of "co-ordinated retribution against known and suspected opposition supporters".

"We cannot wait any longer for the announcement of these results," Mr Brown said. "It is appalling if there is intimidation and violence. It is completely unacceptable and the whole eyes of the world are on Zimbabwe now."

Mr Brown has been urged by the Conservatives to use a visit to the United Nations in New York to urge South Africa, which holds the presidency of the UN Security Council, to use its influence to push Mr Mugabe to act.