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| [00:00.00] | After days of political horse-trading |
| [00:02.79] | the UK finally has a new government and a new Prime Minister, |
| [00:06.92] | following the resignation of Labour's Gordon Brown on Tuesday evening. |
| [00:10.73] | Since last Thursday's general election resulted in a hung parliament, |
| [00:15.16] | a situation in which none of the political parties has an overall majority, |
| [00:19.95] | British politicians have been attempting to form a coalition government. |
| [00:24.78] | Such a government is comparatively rare in the UK. |
| [00:28.96] | Indeed this is the first coalition since the Second World War. |