LONDON – Britain’s new coalition government held its inaugural meeting yesterday, with members of once-rival parties sitting around the Cabinet table together for the first time in decades.
Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron presided over the gathering, sitting across from his deputy, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.
There are 18 Conservative ministers and five Liberal Democrats in the new Cabinet. The two parties forged a coalition government – Britain’s first since World War II – after last week’s national election produced a hung Parliament, in which no party has an overall majority. The Tories won 306 of the 650 House of Commons seats, the Labour Party 258 and the Lib Dems 57.
Most of the new ministers emerged from yesterday morning’s meeting in 10 Downing Street smiling.
– Nampa-AP
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