I just copied this quotation from the Guardian's live coverage of the election aftermath:

8.39am: George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has just been on the Today programme. He dismissed suggestions that the Tories could form a minority government.

I keep reading about this option and I'm afraid it doesn't really exist. We can't just turn up at Buckingham Palace and say we'd like to form a minority government. We would need the consent of the Liberal Democrats to form a minority government.

For this quotation in its context and much more on the election, visit the http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/11/general-election-2010-live-blog