Conservative leader David Cameron is the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown.
Mr Cameron, 43, has left Buckingham Palace after formally accepting the Queen’s request to form a government.
Mr Cameron’s Conservative Party won the most seats in the UK general election last week, but not an overall majority and have been in coalition talks.
It is not yet known whether they have reached a formal agreement with the Lib Dems to form a coalition.
A member of the Church of England too (as was Blair…)
Kendall might be interested to learn that this young member of St Aldate’s Church Oxford was also elected MP, defeating an atheist pro-euthanasia MP:
http://www.nicolablackwood.com/
#1 – even my atheist hard-left Labour friends were overjoyed at Nicola Blackwood’s win. Evan Harris was pretty universally unloved.
Wow, great victory for Nicola Blackwood, too! I viewed this interesting David Cameron video at her website.
http://www.livestream.com/conservatives/video?clipId=flv_08a48982-10c1-472b-b3de-0801f1d2ba17
I wish him all of the best. Labour has left the UK in a mess and I pray that he can effectively address the problems.
The coalition agreement is now done and dusted – Britain’s first coalition government since the second world war. Strange bedfellows, but they do seem to be trying hard at the moment, and it is hard to think of a tougher set of circumstances than we have at the moment, in which to test them out.
Nevertheless, they have committed themselves to work together for a fixed 5 year term – full details of the deal should be published tomorrow. Prayers for good government.
It has to be said that at the end of a strange day in a mad week, this evening, as I watched the TV pictures from a helicopter over Westminster, it was a fine site – buildings bathed in the golden evening sun, and behind Buckingham Palace as a new PM was appointed, there was a rainbow.
What does that augur? We will have to wait and see.
Congratulations to Mr. Cameron. Though I must admit to feeling a bit odd in offering such. It’s a bit like congratulating the newly appointed captain of the Titanic. Britain is in very bad shape.
Cameron attends St Mary Abbotts Chruch, adjacent to Kensington Palace. It is an ‘Affirming Catholic’ parish, i.e. happy with both gays and women in ministerial orders. Also Cameron said before the election the Church of England has to come to terms with the gay issue. He is fully signed up to all recent equality legislation here in the UK and has indicated that the tax breaks for married couples would apply to gay couples too. (Tho the coalition with the Liberals want the money for this tax break spent elsewhere.) (Liberals are even more hot than Labour on equality issues.) So there will ne no turning back here inthe UK!
pls pray for religious freedom to be preserved in the UK…..even our right of centre parties and PM Cameron are terribly careful to please the politically correct lobbies…..people have lost jobs because they are not willing to carry out “gay marriages” and the courts have not helped them….in terms of biblical principles, not much difference between any of our parties in the UK – pray the new PM protects freedom of speech and conscience (no sign he will)
#7 – the photograph of Cameron and his wife at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7712123/Samantha-Cameron-is-youngest-First-Lady-for-half-a-century.html is taken in the covered walkway – not unlike a cloister – of St Mary Abbott’s church. This is also the parish church of Kensington Palace, which was the home of Diana Princess of Wales and of the Princes William and Harry in her lifetime.
The Coalition Agreement for government between the Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties has been published – a copy is available here or here among other places.
Sorry #9 Badman – you will be be disappointed if you were hoping to have a gay wedding at St Mary Abbotts – it is not mentioned at all.
#10 what are you talking about? I am married already and didn’t say anything about gay weddings in my comment. Not sure what you are getting at here….
#11 badman
Well, I suppose that you could read my comment in that way – if you were so minded.
I don’t understand your comment at all, I’m afraid.
You can watch the Tweedledum and Tweedledee show here