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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Quits

 

The UK prime minister resigned Tuesday paving the way for his successor after last week’s inconclusive general election.

Gordon Brown said: “My resignation as leader of the Labour Party will take effect immediately.”

He announced his intention outside 10 Downing Street — the prime ministerial residence – before being driven to Buckingham Palace where he formally handed in his resignation to the queen.

Brown said he loved the job of prime minister not for pomp and ceremony, but “for its potential to make this country I love fairer, more tolerant, more green, more democratic, more prosperous and more just.”

David Cameron’s Conservative party won the largest number of seats, but not enough to let them govern on their own.

Brown’s Labour Party came in second, and the Liberal Democrats third.

Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats first started talks with the Conservatives, then began meetings with Labour.

Brown dramatically announced Monday afternoon he would step down later in the year, a move seen as clearing the way for a potential Labour-Liberal Democrat alliance.

But talks between the two ended just after lunch Tuesday, with no word on the outcome or when the talks might resume.

A senior Labour party politician told CNN Tuesday that the party was right to have talked to Clegg’s party.

But Labour should now go into opposition, former Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer said. Labour has been in power for 13 years.

Shortly after the Labour-Lib Dem talks ended, Liberal Democrat negotiators entered a meeting with the Conservative Party.

“We believe very strongly that there should be a government with a strong and secure majority in the House of Commons, and of course with an elected prime minister,” Conservative negotiator William Hague said as he entered the meeting. “We remain very firmly of that view. We set out our proposals to achieve that yesterday, and we have come here to hear the Liberal Democrats’ response.”

Labour negotiator and Cabinet member Ed Balls told Sky News before Tuesday’s talks that the two parties had areas of agreement and disagreement, “but also, the country needs a stable government, and that’s what we’ve got to see if we can achieve.”

As he left his home Tuesday before the talks, Clegg said he was hoping to “clear up everything” soon.

“I’m as impatient as anybody else to get on with this, to resolve matters one way or another,” Clegg said.

Over the weekend and again on Monday, the Liberal Democrats held talks with the Conservatives, who received the most votes in last Thursday’s election but not enough to form a majority.

One possibility is a coalition between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, which would give the latter the majority they need in the House of Commons. The parties remain far apart on key policies, however.

Conservative leader Cameron said Tuesday morning he had made a “very open, very reasonable offer” to the Liberal Democrats during the discussions and that it was now “decision time” for Clegg’s party.

“I hope they make the right decision,” Cameron said outside his London home.

Brown announced Monday he was stepping down as head of the Labour Party, which effectively means he is leaving the post of prime minister, but it won’t happen right away. He said he hoped a new leader would be in place by the next party conference, scheduled for September.

Top Labour party members declined to speculate Tuesday on Brown’s replacement.

“No candidates will be declaring anything until the future government has been sorted out, either a Conservative-Liberal government or a Labour-Liberal government,” Foreign Secretary David Miliband said outside his home Tuesday.

“I think it’s completely not the moment for that at all,” Balls said. “There’ll be plenty of time for those kind of things in weeks and weeks’ time, but not now.”

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