In the United Kingdom, Conservative leader David Cameron today made a big, open and comprehensive offer to the Liberal Democrats party that emerged as key to government formation after no party won a majority in the general election.The Conservative party so far won 302 of the 641 seats whose results were declared in the 650 member House of Commons.The Labour party lost its 2005 majority with 256 seats while the Liberal Democrats returned less number of seats with 56 seats compared to 62 it won in 2005.The Liberal Democrats party, which was expected to respond later today.Claiming that the outgoing Labour government had left behind terrible problems in various spheres of life, Cameron said there were several grounds of agreement between his party and the Liberal Democrats, and went on to list many of them.On contentious issues such as electoral reform, Cameron offered to set up an all-party committee to go into the question of changing the electoral system from first-past-the-post system to proportional representation based on the number of votes polled by parties. He said, the new government must take urgent decisions, and urged the Liberal Democrats to work with him.He said, UK quickly needs strong and stable government. Opposition Tories led by a young David Cameron emerged the single largest party in a hung Parliament defeating Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour. 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.History was created when two Indian-origin women — Priti Patel, Conservative and Valerie Vaz, sister of Labour MP Keith Vaz — were declared elected in the polls. They will be the first Asian woman MPs in the House.
News On AIR | May 7, 2010 8:19 PM
David Cameron makes big, open offer to Liberal Democrats