A NEW GOVERNMENT

After an election held on  6th May 2010 Britain formed a new government. The Conservative party emerged  as the winner with most of the votes(36%). The leader is a 43 year old David Cameron who is also the Prime Minister.  Conservatives needed support from another party to form the government. After an intense negotiations, on 11th May 2010 a coalition was formed between Liberal Democrats and Conservatives. It was the first time since 1974 that there was a hung parliament.The coalition replaced the Labour party which had been in power since 1997 with Tony Blair and the Gordon Brown as Prime Ministers.A contrast between Conservative and Labour was that Labour expressed commitment to greater social and economic equality and favoured larger role for government and public spending whereas Conservatives favoured free market,privatisation and low taxation.

Britain do not have proportional representation in other words, the seats a party has in the parliament is equal to the share of the national votes. In the British system there are 650 constituencies each with a representative in parliament.In an election either  Conservatives or Labour get most votes Lib Dem's comes second.
The Lib Dem argued that the electoral system is unfair. During the negotiations they demanded a change to much proportional system as condition to collaborate.Conservatives agreed that there would be  more proportional than the present system.(Insideout.net,2010)


Reference.
Insideout.net(2010) 'New Government', inside out.[Online] Available at: http://www.insideout.net/ (Accessed: 4 October 2012).