New British Prime Minister David Cameron is most definitely a slick character. Crikey backgrounds the Tory leader, from his beginnings at Oxford’s infamous Bullingdon Club to the most powerful man in the country.
UK election
Guy Rundle: It’s really over — New Labour has gone
The UK has a new prime minister and a new government. Whatever New Labour was, it has gone, leaving much and perhaps taking more.
Crikey Says: A thing of UK wonder
The British people are waking up to the news that they have a new prime minister and a new political era. The question is, what kind of political era?
PHOTO GALLERY: The silliest bits of the UK election
It’s all rather dramatic right now in Britain, with a new PM and sneaky deals going on behind closed doors. Instead, from egg throwing to costumed voters, The Telegraph’s havin’ a laff at the funniest election moments.
‘Gord is gone’: the press documents Britain’s new dawn
“GORD IS GONE,” The Sun declares. “CAM IS PM.” Crikey wraps the media feeding frenzy as Gordon Brown relinquishes the keys to No. 10 to David Cameron.
Spot the difference: English Sun vs. Scottish Sun 
In the Loop director: UK election was sheer comic genius
Armando Iannucci, the director of British political satire flick In the Loop, says he couldn’t have scripted the tragically hilarious outcome of the UK election better himself — though it would have been funnier if the fate of the country wasn’t at stake.
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Clegg for Deputy UK PM?
Conservative leader David Cameron has just become Britain’s new Prime Minister — and inside sources have told Sky News that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will be named his Deputy PM, along with five or six other Cabinet positions for the party.
What electoral reform could mean to Britain
Britain is seriously considering adopting a preferential voting system to avoid big messes like the one they’re currently swimming in. But just how different would the election result have been?
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Brown resigns, a Labour/Lib-Dems union beckons
Gordon Brown has finally pulled out the Samson Option, offering his resignation to a packed media horde outside No.10 Downing Street early on Monday evening.
Stephen Fry: UK electoral reform and icecream sundaes
“The people have voted for change” is bull, since there is no one single voice of Britain, says Stephen Fry. He gives his take on the UK election debacle with a bit of fudge and bananas thrown in.
Brown goes down
Gordon Brown has fallen on his sword, announcing he will stand down as Labour leader in a last-ditch attempt to keep David Cameron out of office and form a “Coalition of losers” with the Lib Dems.
Putting debt through the spin cycle
In 18 months Kevin Rudd and co have managed to get our national debt to a whopping one fifth of a trillion dollars. Prepare to watch Wayne Swan spin out of control with this budget, writes John Izzard.
UK none the wiser after the election: now what?
A look at the four possible outcomes for the UK election: a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, a grand centre-left coalition, a Conservative minority government… or total chaos.
Guy Rundle: UK election: Everyone’s a loser
The UK has no government, collective decision-making seems impossible, radically different agendas are being run, and the man in the street will be the loser.
Tom Nairn: The Wonderland election, as revolution approaches
So the Great British General Election took place and voters woke up in Alice’s Wonderland. A disintegrating evolution has ended by setting the stage for a political revolution, writes Scottish Nationalist Tom Nairn.
Political snippets: Agitation in ALP ranks
Our Prime Minister is now down in the opinion polls to the level of a mere mortal politician. But relax, polls didn’t exactly predict the UK election, Libs play paupers and other political news of the day.
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Nick Clegg’s options: a decision tree
Very cool: economist Tony Curzon Price has drawn up a “decision tree”, mapping the choices UK Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg faces in negotiating deals (or not) with the Tories or Labour.
I’m 14 and I voted
Who says kids are uninterested in politics? Fourteen year old Alfie McKenzie headed to the UK polling booths dressed up with a posh accent and a trench coat and voted for the Lib Dems. Here’s how — and why — he fooled the electoral system.
leaked UK election: The secret memo threatening a Torie-Lib Dem deal
The draft of a letter revealing Torie leader David Cameron’s strong anti-EU sentiments has been leaked to the Guardian’s Observer. Nick Clegg isn’t going to like this…
Richardson: A system caught unprepared, a country still waiting
Polling problems in Britain are unforgiveable. But a system where a party can win a large majority with 35% of the vote, as Labour did last time, has bigger problems than just long queues.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: It’s dire for Lib Dems
David Cameron’s Tories have failed to win a majority in the their own right in the 2010 UK election, in a poll marred by sit-ins and protests at polling places where people were unable to vote by the time polls had closed.
Crikey Says: The UK election — what a debacle
They held a national election in the heartland of parliamentary democracy yesterday. It was a debacle.
UK: Time for change or 1983 again?
This could be the year that Britain wakes up to the need for a change in the electoral system, writes Charles Richardson. Or it could just be another Tory landslide.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Fingers crossed for a full-blown constitutional crisis
In 24 hours, David Cameron may be Britian’s Prime Minister presumptive. But millions are hoping that a chaotic and unresolved result will open the space for new possibilities, and fast.
