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The Conservative Party leader David Cameron has been elected British Prime Minister. Labor Party's Gordon
Brown, the
1 Prime Minister, had to
2 the tears as he said his goodbyes outside of 10 Downing St. And
Cameron is the youngest UK prime minister in almost 200 years.
According to electoral rules, the leader of the party that wins a majority in Parliament becomes the new prime minister and forms the new government. If no party wins a majority, a coalition (联合) government
3 several
parties may be formed. The head of the coalition party that
4 most seats in Parliament probably becomes the
new prime minister.
In Britain's May 6 parliamentary
5 , Cameron's Conservative Party won the most seats, but did not get a
majority. After negotiations, with an agreement
6 between the Conservatives and the third-placed Liberal
Democrats, a governing coalition was formed.
Cameron has grown
7 a shy primary school student with
8 school reports into a famous political
9 .
He is reportedly a
10 of King William IV (1765-1837). Cameron studied at the elite Eton College, for centuries
the school
11 the choice for the nation's wealthiest people to send their male children to. He went
12 to
Oxford University, where he graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
Once at primary school, Cameron had the poorest school report in the class. At Eton, Cameron was a problem boy. In 1983, he was suspected of taking drugs. He was punished, and
13 ordered to copy 500 lines of Latin
text. He
14 the incident and worked harder.
Cameron was very
15 at Oxford. He captained the tennis team there. He was a member of a dining society.
After graduation, he
16 1 politics. In 2001 Cameron became a member of Parliament and in 2005, at the age of
38, was elected the leader of the Conservative Party.
Now he has been elected the head of a country
17 deep economic troubles. At least 1.3 million people have
been
18 in the serious financial crisis. British voters will be looking to see
19 the program his party has
proposed to deal with the problem
20 do anything to help.
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