Prime Minister Cameron

As I'm sure everyone will know, Gordon Brown has resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour party (making Harriet Harman leader until a permanent replacement is elected), and David Cameron is now Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government. Cabinet appointments appear to be emerging tonight - Conservative Home is already reporting unconfirmed appointments of Hague as Foreign Secretary, Osborne as Chancellor, Cable as Chief Secretary, David Laws as Schools Secretary and Andrew Lansley as Health Secretary. Other rumours buzzing about are Danny Alexander to be Secretary of State for Scotland (that job must almost certainly go to the Lib Dems), and ~~Paddy Ashdown as Defence Secretary~~ (though Sky say Paddy Ashdown is denying it, so who knows if that one is true. Update - everyone seems to be backtracking on that one, ConHome says it is Liam Fox after all).

I'm putting up this thread for discussion of the change over, please try and keep it within the comments policy, so try to avoid dancing on Labour's grave, gnashing your teeth over the horrors of Tory government, or berating the Lib Dems for what they've done or not done.

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