Britain's Gordon Brown to resign as prime minister

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a bid to keep his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in elections last week, announcing Monday he will resign by September at the latest even if the Liberal Democrats -- being wooed by the Conservatives -- decide to join his party in government.

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