BBC News with Iain Purdon.
The leader of the British Conservative Party, David Cameron has been
appoint
ed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth five days after the inconclusive election. The election
resulted in
the Conservatives winning the largest number of seats, but failing to secure an overall majority, leaving Britain’s third party, the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power. Within the past time, Mr. Cameron was driven from Buckingham Palace to the Prime Minister’s official residence in Downing Street, where he made this announcement to the waiting crowd.
Our country has a hung parliament where no party has an overall majority. And we have some deep and pressing problems: a huge deficit, deep social problems and a political system in need of reform. For those reasons, I aim to form a proper and full coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. I believe that is the right way to provide this country with the strong, the stable, the good and
decent
government that I think we need so
badly
.
Mr. Cameron was appointed Prime Minister just after the incumbent Gordon Brown resigned,
bringing to an end
13 years of Labor government. Mr. Brown announced he was resigning to reporters in Downing Street.
Only those who have held the office of prime minister can understand the full weight of its responsibilities and its great capacity for good. I have been