Tony Blair ends term; Brown is Britain's new PM
Jun. 27, 2007

Gordon Brown is the UK's new prime minister after replacing the outgoing Tony Blair on Wednesday. "This will be a new government with new priorities, meeting the concerns and aspirations of the whole country. Let the work of change begin," said Brown as he arrived at 10 Downing Street following an audience with Queen Elizabeth II in which he was asked to form a new government. Earlier, Blair addressed lawmakers in the House of Commons for the final time after more than a decade in power. He was then photographed with his family outside No. 10 before leaving for Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the queen. "I wish everyone, friend or foe, well and that is that, the end," he said in a fulsome and emotional tribute to his parliamentary colleagues following a good-humored session of Prime Minister's Questions. Blair, who is set to become an envoy for Mideast peace, received a standing ovation as he stepped down from the dispatch box.

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