British PM to stay party leader if no majority
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that he intended to stay on as leader of the Labour party, even if it fails to win a majority at an election expected in May. The opposition Conservative party, seeking to end 13 years of Labour government in Britain, are ahead in opinion polls by a slim margin, with some surveys suggesting a hung parliament, in which neither main party wins a parliamentary majority.
Asked whether he owed it to the Labour party to quit as leader if he failed to get a "decent" majority in the election, Brown told BBC Radio 4: "I owe it to people to continue and complete the work we have started of taking this country out of the most difficult global financial recession." (Reuters)
