Labour Party leader Gordon Brown resigns as British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown announced Tuesday he is resigning effective immediately as Britain’s prime minister. In Britian, an official departure requires the prime minister to submit his resignation in person to Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, turning over the proverbial keys to the castle. The queen arrived at the palace on Tuesday afternoon according to Fox News.
“I have informed the queen’s private secretary that it’s my intention to tender my resignation to the queen,” Brown told reporters in a statement to the press before he got into a car to travel to the queen.
Earlier in the day, reports by at least two British newspapers said baggage was being taken out of the prime minister’s official residence Tuesday afternoon. Several cars were seen coming and going from the London walk-up.
The latest effort to form a coalition government — between Brown’s left-of-center Labour Party and Nick Clegg’s even more left-of-center Liberal Democrats — “never got off the ground,” according to a Labour Party source who spoke to Sky News, Fox News’ sister network in Britain.
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