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Originally Posted by zing
my understanding is minimal but the Liberals aint really got enough to form a coalition with Labour have they? even with their seats it wont take Labour to 326 or does a coalition just need more seats than the other party?
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Gordon Brown is the Prime Minister at the moment - he remains PM until he decides to resign. Lib/Lab could form a coalition even without an outright majority, and Gord could carry on. The big test would come at the Queen's Speech, when a minority Lib/Lab coalition would have the risk of losing the vote on the speech. That would amount to a vote of no confidence and we would end up with another election straight away.
A Con/Lib coalition would have easily more than 326 seats and so would not have that problem at Queen's Speech time.
IIRC the Queen's Speech must take place within 2 weeks from now.