Hundreds of onlookers, many of them I am slow walker but I never walk backwardbooing, crowded the gates of Downing Street to watch on, as Cameron swept into his new home in a silver limousine less than 90 minutes after an emotional Brown had made a farewell address."Nick Clegg and I are both politicalI believe in myself leaders who want to put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and for the national interest," Cameron said.
President Barack Obama telephoned tonever say never congratulate Cameron, and invited him to visit Washington this summer, according to the White House. Obama told Cameron that he looked forward to meeting at andreams will keep me young
international economic summit to be held in Canada next month.
The high political drama came as thenever grow old
Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties hammered out details of a coalition deal after the country's inconclusive election. Standing outside 10 Downing St. alongside his wife Sarah, Brown spoke in strained tones as he wished Cameron well.
"Only those who have held the office of prime minister can understand the full weight of its responsibilities and its great capacity for good."
After his brief statement, the 59-year-old Brown walked hand-in-hand with his wife and young sons John and Fraser down Downing Street, where a car waited to take him to the palace for a 15-minute meeting. Minutes later he arrived at Labour Party headquarters, where he was greeted warmly by cheering staffers. Brown told party workers his deputy Harriet Harman would become interim Labour leader until a formal leadership takes place to select his permanent successor. Despite opening their own formal talks with Clegg's party Tuesday, Labour — which lost 91 seats and finished behind Cameron's Conservative in the election_ saw the chances of a deal quickly vanish.
Senior Labour legislators said they feared such a pact — dubbed a "coalition of the defeated" by some — would lack legitimacy and anger the public, who'd wreak revenge on the party at a future election. "I think we have got to respect the result of the general election and you cannot get away from the fact that Labour didn't win," Labour's Health Secretary Andy Burnham told the BBC.
Clegg's party said in a statement Brown's Labour Party "see opposition as a more attractive alternative to the challenges of creating a progressive, reforming government." Brown's resignation ends five days of uncertainty after last week's general election left the country with no clear winner. It left Britain with its first so-called hung Parliament since 1974. Britain's Conservatives won the most seats but fell short of a majority, forcing them to bid against the Labour Party for the loyalty of the Lib Dems. Conservative and Liberal Democrat teams met for several hours Tuesday. Rank-and-file members of the two parties held separate talks in London late into the ight and both approved the coalition deal.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown said the coalition had agreed on a policy platform all members of his party would be proud of. But he said he regretted that Labour had failed to strike a deal with his party. "The Labour Party had an opportunity to create a progressive coalition and they walked away from it," Ashdown said. "That was an act in my view of straight cowardice." Brown's departure follows three successive election victories for his center-left Labour Party, all of which were won by his predecessor Tony Blair, who ousted the Conservatives in 1997. http://www.forobarcelona.net
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