Britain's Coalition Cabinet Begins Battle of the Budget.

LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron met with his coalition cabinet for the first time on Thursday, as the euphoria over the new partnership between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats gave way to a let's-get-down-to-business approach marked by a determination to attack Britain's huge budget deficit. With reporters and television cameras crowding into the cabinet room at 10 Downing Street, Mr. Cameron opened the meeting by noting that it had been 65 years since the last coalition cabinet had met there, at the end of Winston Churchill's wartime national unity government, which was followed by decades of single-party Conservative and Labour governments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]