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Today in History: David Cameron leads UK's first post-war coalition

5/11/2026

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On 11 May 2010, Queen Elizabeth II invited David Cameron to become Prime Minister, leading a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition—the first UK coalition since the 1945 Churchill war ministry. The Cameron–Clegg government united a centre-right party with a liberal party, ending Gordon Brown’s Labour administration.

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On 11 May 2010, Queen Elizabeth II invited David Cameron to become Prime Minister, leading a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition—the first UK coalition since the 1945 Churchill war ministry. The Cameron–Clegg government united a centre-right party with a liberal party, ending Gordon Brown’s Labour administration.