Brown resignation sparks Tory outrage

British PM Gordon Brown has offered his resignation in return for a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, leads the Daily Telegraph. The announcement comes four days after the 6 May’s inconclusive election result. With the likeliest government partners the Conservatives and Lib Dems failing to agree on future electoral reform, Gordon Brown, the Telegraph reports, wishes to “oversee talks… before stepping down by the time of the Labour conference in September, when a new leader would be chosen by party members.”

“An act of quite staggering cynicism based on naked party advantage,” is how the pro-Tory daily sees it, "… Mr Brown is effectively seeking to nullify the result of last week’s general election.” If Labour forms a government with the Lib Dems, having won 2 million fewer votes and 48 fewer seats than the Conservatives, “the United Kingdom will find itself governed by a Labour prime minister the country has not elected, succeeding a Labour prime minister neither the country nor his party elected. Even by Labour’s standards, this is self-serving and unscrupulous.”