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its federal executive endorsed the coalition agreement by the required three-quarters majority at a meeting that broke up just after midnight. </p><p>Speaking minutes later, Mr Clegg said: "I hope this is the start of the new politics I have always believed in - diverse, plural, where politicians of different persuasions come together, overcome their differences in order to deliver good government for the sake of the whole country." </p><p>He acknowledged there would be problems and "glitches" and, in a message to Lib Dem voters, he added: "I can imagine this evening you'll be having many questions, maybe many doubts, about this new governing arrangement. </p><p>"But I want to assure you that I wouldn't have entered into this agreement unless I was genuinely convinced that it offers a unique opportunity to deliver the kind of changes you and I believe in.</p>   <div class="videoInStoryC"> <div id="emp_8676549" class="emp"> <noscript> <img name="holdingImage" class="holding" 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pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m </li><li>The new administration will scrap Labour's planned rise in National Insurance but some of the benefits will go on reducing income tax thresholds for lower earners </li><li>A pledge to have a referendum on any further transfer of powers to the EU and a commitment from the Lib Dems not to adopt the euro for the lifetime of the next Parliament </li><li>The Lib Dems have agreed to Tory proposals for a cap on non-EU migration </li><li>The Conservatives will recognise marriage in the tax system - Lib Dems will abstain in Commons vote </li><li>The Lib Dems will drop opposition to replacement for Britain's Trident nuclear missiles but the programme will be scrutinised for value for money </li><li>There will be a "significant acceleration" of efforts to reduce the budget deficit - including £6bn of spending reductions this year </li><li>There will be a referendum on moving to the Alternative Vote system and enhanced "pupil premium" for deprived children as Lib Dems demanded </li></ul><p>Mr Cameron has begun the work of appointing his first cabinet, with the Tories' George Osborne as chancellor, William Hague as foreign secretary and Liam Fox as defence secretary. </p><p>Mr Clegg's chief of staff, Danny Alexander, who was part of the party's negotiating team, is to be Scottish Secretary, the BBC understands. </p><p>Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has been given responsibility for "business and banks" but it is not known if his title will be chief secretary to the Treasury, a senior Lib Dem source said. </p><p>A Downing Street spokesman said it had been agreed that five cabinet posts would be filled by Liberal Democrats, including the appointment of Mr Clegg, although there are expected to be about 20 Lib Dems in government jobs in total.</p>  <table cellspacing="0" align="right" width="231" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000im_/http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" width="5" height="1" alt="" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0"></td> <td class="sibtbg"> <div class="sih"> PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON </div> <div class="o"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000im_/http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47827000/jpg/_47827584_cameron226getty.jpg" width="226" height="80" alt="David and Samantha Cameron at No 10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0"> </div> <div class="o"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000im_/http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif" width="226" height="1" alt="" border="0" vspace="2" hspace="0"><br/> </div> <div class="miiib">  <div class="arr"> <a class="" href="/web/20100513181000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8661964.stm"><b>The David Cameron story</b></a> </div>   <div class="arr"> <a class="" href="/web/20100513181000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8676216.stm"><b>Analysis: Now for the hard part</b></a> </div>   <div class="arr"> <a class="" href="/web/20100513181000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8675848.stm"><b>Q&A: Tory-Lib Dem alliance</b></a> </div>   <div class="arr"> <a class="" href="/web/20100513181000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8676405.stm"><b>Full text: Cameron becomes PM</b></a> </div>   <div class="arr"> <a class="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/haveyoursay/2010/05/will_new_coalition_government.html">Send us your comments</a> </div>  </div> </td> </tr> </table>  <p>Mr Cameron's arrival in Downing Street marks the end of 13 years of Labour rule. </p><p>The coalition is also the first Liberal Democrat and Conservative power-sharing deal at Westminster in history. </p><p>Mr Cameron, who is six months younger than Tony Blair was when he entered Downing Street in 1997, is the youngest prime minister since 1812 and the first Old Etonian to hold the office since the early 1960s. </p><p>Barack Obama was the first foreign leader to congratulate Mr Cameron in a brief telephone call during which the US president invited the new prime minister to visit Washington in the summer, Downing Street said. </p><p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel also offered her congratulations and invited Mr Cameron to visit Berlin.</p>  <table cellspacing="0" align="right" width="231" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000im_/http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" width="5" height="1" alt="" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0"></td> <td class="sibtbg"> <div> <div class="mva"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000im_/http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif" width="24" height="13" alt="" border="0"> <b>I came into politics because I love this country, I think its best days still lie ahead </b> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000im_/http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif" align="right" width="23" height="13" alt="" border="0" vspace="0"><br clear="all"/> </div> </div> <div class="mva"> <div>David Cameron</div> </div> <div class="o"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000im_/http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif" width="226" height="1" alt="" border="0" vspace="2" hspace="0"><br/> </div> <div class="miiib">  <div class="arr"> <a class="" href="/web/20100513181000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8675913.stm">Brown resigns as prime minister</a> </div>   <div class="arr"> <a class="" href="/web/20100513181000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8673608.stm">Gordon Brown's rise and fall</a> </div>  </div> </td> </tr> </table>  <p>In a speech outside his new Downing Street home, after travelling to Buckingham Palace to formally accept the Queen's request to form the next government, Mr Cameron paid tribute to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown for his long years of public service. </p><p>He also pledged to tackle Britain's "pressing problems" - the deficit, social problems and to "rebuild trust in our political system". </p><p>He said he aimed to "help build a more responsible society here in Britain... those who can should and those who can't, we will always help. I want to make sure that my government always looks after the elderly, the frail, the poorest in our country. </p><p>"We must take everyone through with us on some of the difficult decisions we have ahead. </p><p>"I came into politics because I love this country, I think its best days still lie ahead and I believe deeply in public service. </p><p>"I think the service our country needs right now is to face up to our big challenges, to confront our problems, take difficult decisions, lead people through those decisions, so that together we can reach better times ahead." </p><p><b>Emotional statement</b></p><p>The Conservatives had been in days of negotiations with the Lib Dems - who also negotiated with Labour - after last Thursday's UK election. </p><p>Earlier the Lib Dems said talks with Labour had failed because "the Labour Party never took seriously the prospects of forming a progressive, reforming government". </p><p>A spokesman said key members of the Labour team "gave every impression of wanting the process to fail" and the party had made "no attempt at all" to agree a common approach on issues like schools funding and tax reform.</p>   <div class="videoInStoryC"> <div id="emp_8676271" class="emp"> <noscript> <img name="holdingImage" class="holding" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513181000im_/http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47827000/jpg/_47827039_009268129-1.jpg" alt="Gordon Brown"/> <div class="warning"><p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.</strong> Media requires JavaScript to play. </p> </p></div> </noscript> <object width="0" height="0"> <param name="id" value="embeddedPlayer_8676271"/> <param name="width" value="256"/> <param name="height" value="144"/> <param name="holding" value="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47827000/jpg/_47827039_009268129-1.jpg"/> <param name="playlist" value="http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/emp/8670000/8676200/8676271.xml"/> <param name="config_settings_autoPlay" value="false"/> <param name="config_settings_showPopoutButton" value="false"/> <param name="autoPlay" value="false"/> <param name="config_plugin_fmtjLiveStats_pageType" value="eav2"/> <param name="config_plugin_fmtjLiveStats_edition" value="International"/> <param name="fmtjDocURI" value="/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8675265.stm"/> <param name="config_settings_suppressItemKind" value="advert, ident"/> <param name="config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter" value="true"/> </object>  <script type="text/javascript"> bbc.fmtj.av.emp.load( function() { bbc.fmtj.av.emp.loadEmp("emp_8676271"); }); </script> </div> <p class="caption">Gordon Brown: "Thank you and goodbye"</p> </div>   <p>"Certain key Labour cabinet ministers were determined to undermine any agreement by holding out on policy issues and suggesting that Labour would not deliver on proportional representation and might not marshal the votes to secure even the most modest form of electoral reform," he said.<br/><br/> Labour's Lord Mandelson told the BBC they had been "up for" a deal, but the Lib Dems had "created so many barriers and obstacles that perhaps they thought their interests lay on the Tory side, on the Conservative side, rather than the progressive side". </p><p>After it became clear the talks had failed, Mr Brown tendered his resignation and said he wished the next prime minister well. </p><p>In an emotional resignation statement in Downing Street, Mr Brown thanked his staff, his wife Sarah and their children, who joined the couple as they left for Buckingham Palace. </p><p>Mr Brown said it had been "a privilege to serve" adding: "I loved the job not for its prestige, its titles and its ceremony - which I do not love at all. 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