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UK set for India-style coalition politics
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Prasun Sonwalkar
London, May 7 (PTI) With over 550 seats declared out
of 649, Britain Friday clearly headed into an India-style
phase of coalition politics with none of the major parties on
course to achieve majority as Conservatives appeared to emerge
as the single largest party leaving the ruling Labour party
behind.
With most election results declared, the Conservative
party had won 273, Labour 223, Liberal Democrats 47 and others
27.
History was created when two Indian-origin women –
Priti Patel (Conservative) and Valerie Vaz, sister of Labour
MP Keith Vaz – were declared elected.
Never in the history of House of Commons were Asian
women elected as MPs.
Vaz himself retained his seat in Leicester East though
his vote share got reduced by 5 per cent from the last
elections.
It is the first time a brother-sister duo is being
elected to the House of Commons.
The term 'horse-trading', better known in the lexicon
of Indian coalition politics, has become the buzzword as
leaders of main parties try to cobble a majority.
The biggest disappointment of the election has been
the fate of Liberal Democrats, whose leader Nick Clegg had
been catapulted to top billing after the first of the three
television debates.
The party hoped to win over 100 seats, but is
struggling to retain the number its seats in the last House –
62.
Conservative leader David Cameron declared that Prime
Minister Gordon Brown and the Labour party had lost the
mandate to rule after his party was clearly on course to
emerge as the largest single party.
"Our country wants change. That change is going to
require new leadership," Cameron said. He also indicated that
he will enter into negotiations to determine who will form the
next government.
"What will guide me will be our national interest," he
said.
Brown, on the other hand, insisted that it was his
duty to ensure that Britain had a 'strong, stable and
principled' government, which pointed towards a coalition with
the Liberal Democrats.
"The outcome of this country's vote is not yet known
but my duty to the country out of this election is to play my
part in Britain having a strong, stable and principled
government," he said.
But a Labour-Liberal Democrats coalition may still not
have the required majority figure of 326 in a House of Commons
with a strength of 649. PTI PS
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Prasun Sonwalkar
London, May 7 (PTI) With over 550 seats declared out
of 649, Britain Friday clearly headed into an India-style
phase of coalition politics with none of the major parties on
course to achieve majority as Conservatives appeared to emerge
as the single largest party leaving the ruling Labour party
behind.
With most election results declared, the Conservative
party had won 273, Labour 223, Liberal Democrats 47 and others
27.
History was created when two Indian-origin women –
Priti Patel (Conservative) and Valerie Vaz, sister of Labour
MP Keith Vaz – were declared elected.
Never in the history of House of Commons were Asian
women elected as MPs.
Vaz himself retained his seat in Leicester East though
his vote share got reduced by 5 per cent from the last
elections.
It is the first time a brother-sister duo is being
elected to the House of Commons.
The term 'horse-trading', better known in the lexicon
of Indian coalition politics, has become the buzzword as
leaders of main parties try to cobble a majority.
The biggest disappointment of the election has been
the fate of Liberal Democrats, whose leader Nick Clegg had
been catapulted to top billing after the first of the three
television debates.
The party hoped to win over 100 seats, but is
struggling to retain the number its seats in the last House –
62.
Conservative leader David Cameron declared that Prime
Minister Gordon Brown and the Labour party had lost the
mandate to rule after his party was clearly on course to
emerge as the largest single party.
"Our country wants change. That change is going to
require new leadership," Cameron said. He also indicated that
he will enter into negotiations to determine who will form the
next government.
"What will guide me will be our national interest," he
said.
Brown, on the other hand, insisted that it was his
duty to ensure that Britain had a 'strong, stable and
principled' government, which pointed towards a coalition with
the Liberal Democrats.
"The outcome of this country's vote is not yet known
but my duty to the country out of this election is to play my
part in Britain having a strong, stable and principled
government," he said.
But a Labour-Liberal Democrats coalition may still not
have the required majority figure of 326 in a House of Commons
with a strength of 649. PTI PS
RBT
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