(Reuters) - Britain's opposition Conservatives offered coalition talks to the Liberal Democrats on Friday after a dramatic parliamentary election produced no outright majority, the first time this has happened in Britain since 1974.
The center-right Conservatives won the most seats in the 650-seat House of Commons, comfortably ahead of the ruling center-left Labour Party but not in overall control. The centrist Liberal Democrats came a distant third.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown remained in office in a caretaker role pending the emergence of a new government, in accordance with British constitutional convention.
He said the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had every right to try to do a deal first but was ready to talk to the Lib Dems about a possible agreement if discussions failed.
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