Starting from a position of weakness

"Today" BBC Radio 4 7AM 15th May 2010

Good morning you're listening to the Today programme with John Humphrys and Sarah Montague

Today's top story is the creation of what could possibly the shortest-lived government in British history.

At 8.30 last night David Milliband returned from Buckingham Palace as Prime Minister but leading a minority coalition government with the Liberal Democrats

The new Lab-LibDem government is 12 seats shorty of an overall majority with David Cameron's Conservatives the official opposition with 306 seats.

We have reports from across the UK but first the BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson on a memorable day for British politics.
 
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