privilege
d to learn much about the very best in human nature and a fare amount too about its frailties, including my own.
Above all
, it was a privilege to serve, and yes, I loved the job, not for its prestige, its titles and its ceremony, which I do not love at all. No. I loved the job for its potential to make this country I love fairer, more tolerant, more green or democratic, more prosperous and more just, truly a greater Britain.
And now here with his assessments of the combination of 5 days of political drama in Britain is our correspondent Rob Watson.
So David Cameron is now Britain’s 50th Prime Minister and at 43 the youngest in nearly 200 years. After short audience with the Queen, he arrived in Downing Street, acknowledging that he hadn’t won the election
outright
and he would therefore be forming a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the first coalition in Britain in 70 years. He would, he said,
strive to
restore trust in politicians as the new government tackled the challenges ahead. So in the swift transition that is the British political system, the new Labor era is at its end after 13 years in the office and Gordon Brown no longer in Downing Street.
Ahead lies a soberer assessment of those 13 years and of the challenges now facing Mr. Cameron, but for now, it’s the drama of the moments that he enjoys.
World News from the BBC.
The White House has said President Barack Obama is deeply frustrated that the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has not yet been stopped. The comments came as three companies involved in the spill faced questioning by US senators over what went wrong. BP, the owner of the rig, said the contractor, Transocean, was responsible for the failure of a giant valve that should have stopped the blast last month. Transocean suggested that the blame