Britain's Brown Plans to Step Down ; Party Enters Coalition Talks

The Washington Times › May 11, 2010

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Monday that he will step down by September, opening the door for his Labor Party to remain in power at the head of a "progressive coalition" with other left-of-center parties, despite being bested in last week's indecisive election.

Nick Clegg, leader of the center-left Liberal Democrats, said his party was entering formal coalition negotiations with Labor, "on exactly the same basis" as its ongoing talks with the right-of- center Conservative Party, which won the most parliamentary seats in last week's election but fell short of the outright majority it needed to form a government on its own.

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Britain's Brown Plans to Step Down ; Party Enters Coalition Talks

The news threw the postelection landscape in Britain, which has not had such a "hung Parliament" since 1974, into fresh ferment, ending hopes for a swift resolution of the political horse-trading that left Britons wi...

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