Editing Gordon Brown (section)

===2010 government formation and resignation===
{{main|2010 United Kingdom government formation}}
{{further|2010 Labour Party leadership election (UK)}}
[[File:The Queen and Gordon Brown 11 May 2010 (7141493275).jpg|thumb|Brown tendering his resignation to [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] at Buckingham Palace]]
Brown announced on 10 May 2010 that he would stand down as Labour Leader, with a view to a successor being chosen before the next [[Labour Party Conference]] in September 2010.<ref name="resignation">{{Cite news |date=10 May 2010 |title=Gordon Brown 'stepping down as Labour leader' |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8672859.stm |url-status=live |access-date=10 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513013555/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8672859.stm |archive-date=13 May 2010}}</ref> The following day, negotiations between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition government failed, and a [[Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement]] was reached. During the evening, Brown visited [[Buckingham Palace]] to tender his resignation as Prime Minister to [[Queen Elizabeth&nbsp;II]] and to recommend that she invite the Leader of the Opposition, [[David Cameron]], to form a government.<ref name="PMRes">{{Cite news |date=11 May 2010 |title=Gordon Brown resigns as UK prime minister |work=BBC News |location=London |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8675913.stm |url-status=live |access-date=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011070320/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8675913.stm |archive-date=11 October 2012}}</ref> He resigned as leader of the Labour Party with immediate effect.<ref name=PMRes/>