Sky: Gordon Brown to resign as PM tonight, as Lib-Con deal imminent

GB Resigns By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Sky News is reporting that Gordon Brown will resign as Prime Minister tonight, and that the Tories and Liberal Democrats are “very, very close” to finalising a deal on coalition government.

Ministers have been coming and going from Downing Street with grim faces throughout the afternoon. Unless things change again very dramatically, thirteen years of Labour government will be over tonight and the party will regroup in opposition.

I will try to update this post on the move this evening. In the meantime, my tweets are below:

Alex Smith

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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