Mr Cameron said: “It would not be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination”.
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Rochford and Southend East MP James Duddridge, who also serves under Mr Cameron as a Foreign Officer minister, backed Leave but called on the prime minister to stay on before the announcement.
“Only when he is gone will people realise we had such a centralist, moderate figure as Prime Minister, it will be very hard to replace him”.
For the first time in history, Britain’s Prime Minister will not be chosen by a general election, or by MPs, but by party activists – as the New Statesman reported back in February.
She said: “I am disappointed that David Cameron will be resigning so quickly, we knew he had to pass over but I didn’t think it would be so quickly”.
Mr Cameron announced he would stand down as leader and Prime Minister in time for the party’s conference in October.
Wyre Forest MP Mark Garnier said: “I don’t believe it – the last thing we need is the uncertainty of a leadership challenge”.
“He has been trying to resolve long running issues that have dogged British politics and the only way to do that is by giving the final say to the electorate”.
The Prime Minister delivered his emotional speech that he would resign following the European Union referendum result to hundreds of people from media organisations around the world at 8.23am this morning.
“As I said in 2011 when I first voted for a referendum I wanted everyone in Worcester to have their say and now they have”.
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One of the figure heads of the leave campaign, Boris Johnson, is the bookies favourite to become the next leader of the Conservative Party – now at 8/13 on Betfair.
