UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Says He Will Resign

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Gordon Brown has said he is stepping down as Labour Party leader.

Mr Brown, prime minister since 2007, said he wanted a successor to be in place by the time of the party's conference in September, the BBC reported.

Mr Brown announced his intention to quit in a statement in Downing St in which he also said his party was to start formal talks with the Lib Dems.

The Conservatives won the most seats and most votes in the election and have been in talks with the Lib Dems, according to the BBC and other British media.

Mr Brown said no party had won an overall majority in the UK general election and, as Labour leader, he had to accept his part in that.

He said he had no desire to stay in his position longer than was needed to form a stable government, and that he would ask the Labour Party to set in form the process of a leadership contest.

He said it could be in the interests of the country to form a "progressive" government - possibly in coalition with the Lib Dems - the UK's third largest party.

It emerged earlier that the Lib Dem negotiating team, who have held days of talks with the Conservatives, had also met senior Labour figures in private.

The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said one of the stumbling blocks to any Lib Dem-Labour deal had been Mr Brown himself.

A senior lawmaker with Britain's Liberal Democrat Party says no deal has been reached yet with the Conservative Party in their attempts to form a new government.Lawmaker David Laws said Monday that the Liberal Democrats are seeking clarification on a proposed deal with the Conservatives, who won the most seats in Thursday's national vote but not a majority in Parliament. The sticking points are education, tax and electoral reform.

Laws said there has been extensive debate among party members because the party needs to "make sure we get these matters right."

He also said the Liberal Democrats are still speaking with the Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/255276-general-election-2010-polling-stations-report-high-turnout/ Already posted

Admittedly as part of another thread on the UK elections.

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Good Riddance

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He really had to go. Just the same I don't trust Cameron at all - especially after his grandstanding over immigration. Promising quotas which will only affect the 20% of immigrants from outside the EU when he knows full well that the vast majority of immigration to the UK is legal and the government can do zip to regulate it.