Citing the growing problem of binge drinking, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said his government would consider reversing a controversial decision to allow pubs to serve alcohol around the clock, the BBC reported Sept. 24.

During a Labour party conference and a radio interview, Brown decried binge drinking in the U.K. as "unacceptable" and said a review of the 2005 law ending early closing times for pubs is coming.

"Where there are things that are wrong and where mistakes have been made, we will look at these and we will change these things," he said. "That's why on casinos we are looking again, on cannabis we are looking again and that's why on 24-hour drinking we are looking again."

Brown also threatened to take liquor licenses away from shops that sell alcohol to underage youth and called on the alcohol industry to "do more to advertise the dangers of teenage drinking."