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'Golden Triangle' Squared Away Details to Ease Negotiation Process

Updated May 12, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

LONDON—A low-key army of civil servants helped the U.K.'s main political parties navigate through a murky constitutional maze for which there is no legal map as they jockeyed to form a government in recent days.

This mass of bureaucrats is responsible for tasks that include everything from advising party negotiators on constitutional issues—in a country that doesn't have a codified written constitution—to making sure that the queen...

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