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2010512BBC The leader of the British Conservative Party, David Cameron has been appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth five days after the inconclusive election. The election resulted in the Conservatives winning the largest number of seats, but failing to secure an overall majority, leaving Britain’s third party, the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power. Within the past time, Mr. Cameron was driven from Buckingham Palace to the Prime Minister’s official residence in Downing Street, where he made this announcement to the waiting crowd. Our country has a hung parliament where no party has an overall majority. And we have some deep and pressing problems: a huge deficit, deep social problems and a political system in need of reform. For those reasons, I aim to form a proper and full coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. I believe that is the right way to provide this country with the strong, the stable, the good and decent government that I think we need so badly. Mr. Cameron was appointed Prime Minister just after the incumbent Gordon Brown resigned, bringing to an end 13 years of Labor government. Mr. Brown announced he was resigning to reporters in Downing Street. Only those who have held the office of prime minister can understand the full weight of its responsibilities and its great capacity for good. I have been privileged to learn much about the very best in human nature and a fare amount too about its frailties, including my own. Above all, it was a privilege to serve, and yes, I loved the job, not for its prestige, its titles and its ceremony, which I do not love at all. No. I loved the job for its potential to make this country I love fairer, more tolerant, more green or democratic, more prosperous and more just, truly a greater Britain. And now here with his assessments of the combination of 5 days of political drama in Britain is our correspondent Rob Watson. So David Cameron is now Britain’s 50th Prime Minister and