OMH Gordon Brown has resigned!

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news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/liveevent/

BREAKING NEWSGordon Brown says Nick Clegg wants to begin formal discussions with the Labour Party and plans are now being made to allow that to happen. He also says he will step down as Labour leader by September and will ask the Labour party to set in motion a leadership contest to replace him.

That'll be good then.

A few more months of total uncertainty

The key phrase being 'by september'

Oh they are saying he was pushed lol

oh....so he's not gone yet then???

Hardly news.

Did anyone really think he'd still be leading the Labour party by then?

Going by Sept they say

xposts lol

uh, he's retirement age, no?

is he coming back to Fife then?

I hide the politics topic because I am sick of seeing threads about politics - now it seems the subject is appearing in chat all the time now too

Wow!

oh cool! john barrowman is on The Hour.

he's so fab.

i keep forgetting he is Glaswegian.

yy saltire, very tiresome

can you get scottish TV down there, Saltire.

john barrowman is on STV .

end hijack.

Apols to those who hide Politics topics!

And re thread title typo.

I had the BBC election website open in another window and there was no live streaming and then all of a sudden it started playing the live statement and I thought. "Oh I'll let the MNers know".

Yes he is still prime minister and will still be leader until Labour elect a new leader.