Cameron said: “I will do everything I can as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months”.
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“In voting to leave the European Union, it is vital to stress that there is now no need for haste and, indeed, as the prime minister has just said, nothing will change over the short-term except that work will have to begin on how to give effect to the will of the people and to extricate this country from the super-national system”, Boris Johnson, anti-EU campaigner, said. Older voters backed Brexit; the young wanted to stay in.
Other Cabinet members are likely to contend as well. The relationship between California and the United Kingdom can be measured in the billions of dollars.
His comments came as Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced Scotland would hold another referendum to stay within the European Union, citing the economic benefits to the partnership.
The victorious “leave” campaigners in Thursday’s referendum have said there is no rush to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon treaty, which will begin a two-year exit process to renegotiate trade, business and political links between the United Kingdom and what will become a 27-nation bloc.
‘The process should get underway as soon as possible so that we are not left in limbo but rather can concentrate on the future of Europe.’
Juncker said the split was “not an amicable divorce” – adding that it was never “a tight love affair anyway”.
The PM will fly to Brussels on Tuesday for the two-day summit, but will be excluded from the crunch talks on the second day of the meeting.
Luxembourg Foreign Minister said he hoped there would be no “cat and mouse” game.
At Stanford University, on the USA west coast, where Obama joined a group of entrepreneurs at a meeting Friday, he repeated what was already expressed in the statement: “The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision”.
The referendum has triggered political and financial turmoil around the world. USA stocks also nosedived at the open. “There is plenty to do now to help make this decision work, to stabilize our economy, to reassure our allies and to continue the program we were all elected on a year ago”.
2 Britain and the European Union will negotiate the terms of the separation.
Cameron said that transition should happen in October.
Many Labour lawmakers were strongly pro-“remain” and accuse the socialist Corbyn, a longtime critic of the European Union, of failing to rally Labour supporters behind staying in the bloc.
“Most people, including many disaffected Britons who want to shake up the system by backing a Brexit, understand that this would mean a political and economic shock”, he wrote.
“Please tell me I’m still sleeping and this is all just a bad nightmare!” former Finnish prime minister Alexander Stubb tweeted. He said he didn’t vote in the referendum because of a paperwork mix-up.
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Those in favor of a British withdrawal from the European Union argued that outside the bloc, London would be better positioned to conduct its own trade negotiations, better able to control immigration, and free from what they believe to be excessive European Union regulations and bureaucracy.
