Cameron becomes youngest PM of UK in 200 years
New Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and the smaller Liberal Democrat party struck an agreement on Wednesday to form Britain’s first coalition government since 1945. Read more
Conservatives need partners to form Government
Britain’s opposition Conservatives offered to work with their smaller Liberal Democrats rivals in government on Friday after a dramatic parliamentary election that produced no outright winner for the first time since 1974. Read more
Britain gets first hung parliament in decades
The Conservatives won most seats in a landmark general election but Britain was left Friday with a hung parliament as the party failed to land a knock out blow against Labour prime minister Gordon Brown.
Plunged into the kind of political uncertainty the country has not experienced since 1974. Read more
Britons vote in closest election race in decades
Britain voted today in the closest general election for decades with opinion polls showing the opposition Conservatives winning most seats but not enough to form a government. Voting ends at 2100 GMT with the first results expected two hours later. Read more
British General Elections Today
Britain goes for its General Elections today on Thursday and unless pollsters, pundits and punters are uniformly mistaken, no party is likely to win an absolute majority. Read more
Britain holds first televised election debates
British voters fixed their eyes on television screens across the country for the first US-style political debate on Thursday — a historic event billed as an exciting prelude to one of the closest elections in years. Read more
Britain to hold national election on May 6: Official
Britain’s first national election in five years will take place on May 6, Prime Minister Gordon Brown planned to announce Tuesday, launching a monthlong campaign that could end in his ouster and the return of the opposition Conservative Party to power for the first time in 13 years. Read more
India, Britain set to sign nuclear deal
A declaration on civil nuclear cooperation between India and Britain appears to be on the anvil when commerce minister Anand Sharma visits London next month.This was indicated by Lord Peter Mandelson, British secretary of state for business, innovation and skills. Read more
British diplomat -Iraq invasion was of questionable legitimacy
The invasion of Iraq was legal but of “questionable legitimacy” because the US and UK had failed to persuade other countries of the need for war, the then-British ambassador to the UN told the Chilcot inquiry today.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock said: “I regard our participation in the military action in Iraq in March 2003 as legal but of questionable legitimacy in that it did not have the democratically observable backing of the great majority of [UN] member states, or even perhaps of the majority of people inside the UK.
Currency Tumbles on Fear That Bailout
The U.K.’s latest bank-rescue effort initially backfired Tuesday, helping drive its currency to historic lows while aggravating fears about the stability of the country’s banks and the fate of the government’s finances. Read more