Conservative Party leader David Cameron on Tuesday completed a tortuous journey to become Britain's prime minister, and clinched a fragile power-sharing deal with the country's No. 3 political party in the wake of Thursday's inconclusive election.

Five frenetic days after a general election that resulted in a so-called hung Parliament-in which no party holds a majority-Cameron's Tories agreed on a coalition deal with the Liberal Democrat Party headed by Nick Clegg.