国际英语新闻：Brown to resign as British Labour leader, paving way for Lib-Lab government

The Conservatives, the main opposition party for the past 13 years, won 10.6 million votes and 307 seats in last Thursday's general election, short of the 326 seats in the House of Commons they need to form a majority government.

The ruling Labor party, under Brown, suffered a decisive rejection from the voters with 8.6 million votes, losing 91 seats and finishing on 258 seats.

Both parties need the support of the Liberal Democrats, who got 6.8 million votes and 57 seats, to form a government.

Clegg said last Friday that he would turn first to the Conservatives, because they had won the most seats and votes.

Saturday saw talks commence between high-ranking teams from both sides in the morning. In the afternoon Clegg met his 57 members of parliament, then the leaders from among that group in his shadow government team, and then the Federal Executive of his party to win their support for his approach.

The success of the talks to that point were underlined on Saturday evening when Conservative leader David Cameron and Clegg met face-to-face for a 70-minute private meeting.

Talks resumed on Sunday, with the Conservative team including Cameron's number 2 George Osborne, currently the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, and William Hague, former leader and current shadow foreign secretary.