Britain's hung parliament: 5 scenarios

Five days after the British general election, no government has emerged. And the Prime Minister just resigned. What happens now?

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For the first time in decades, a general election in Great Britain has failed to produce a winner. With parliament now hung, the two main parties, the Conservatives and Labour, are each seeking to form an alliance with the third-party Liberal Democrats to reach the threshold number of parliamentary seats needed to form a goverment. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced his intention to step down once a successor emerges. But no one quite knows when that will be, and all eyes are now on Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg. (Watch a Russia Today report about the governmental standstill.) Here are the potential outcomes of the U.K.'s current political limbo:

3:08pm — Since this article was written, Gordon Brown has stood down as Prime Minister to allow David Cameron to take over the role. Exactly what coalition the Conservatives have agreed to with the Liberal Democrats is yet to be announced.

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