British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offers to step down

LONDON -- After a long and rocky political career spent battling the rival Conservative Party, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sacrificed the only thing he had left: himself.

Brown, whose Labor Party suffered massive losses in a second-place finish in Thursday's elections, stood outside No. 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon and vowed that he would resign by the fall. - U.K.'s Brown offers to step down

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