David Cameron has this morning announced his resignation
after the UK voted to leave the European Union. The Prime Minister’s voice
began to crack spoke on the steps of Downing Street after the country voted 52%
to 48% in favour of leaving.
He said he would continue as Prime Minister with his cabinet
for the next three months. He said the Brexit vote was the ‘will of the British
people’ which was an ‘instruction which must be delivered’. Mr Cameron said:
‘Over 33 million people from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and
Gibraltar have all had their say.
‘We should be proud of the fact that in these islands we trust the
people for these big decisions. ‘We not only have a parliamentary
democracy, but on questions about the arrangements for how we’ve
governed there are times when it is right to ask the people themselves
and that is what we have done.’
The pound crashed and markets around the world tumbled off the back of
the election result. Earlier today Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said
that Mr Cameron ‘remains the Prime Minister and will carry out the
instructions of the British people’.
He said that voters have ‘spoken clearly’ and the Government’s job is to
‘get on with that decision, protecting the economy and doing all we can
to get the best outcome for Britain’.
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