More than 80 pro-Brexiteers – including every Cabinet minister who backed Leave – signed a letter telling him that he had a “mandate and a duty” to continue as Prime Minister.
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Outside 10 Downing Street Friday, Cameron, who had defiantly championed the cause of the Remain campaign, conceded that his position had become untenable after a night of drama.
The front page of the London Evening Standard reports David Cameron’s resignation.
Britain voted to leave the European Union, results from Thursday’s referendum showed, a stunning repudiation of the nation’s elites that deals the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two. “We want him to stay and that letter is a statement of commitment to his leadership”.
Fellow Leave campaigner Justice Secretary Michael Gove drove home the message of saving Britain’s democracy casting Brussels as domineering and out of touch.
He said: “The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered”.
Mr Schultz insisted that uncertainty was “the opposite of what we need”, adding that it was hard to accept “a whole continent is taken hostage because of an internal fight in the Tory party”.
“But the British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction”. Gibraltar’s chief minister Fabian Picardo noted in May that Brexit supporters should reflect on the fact that a leave vote would see joint sovereignty “back on the table”.
Mr Johnson – touted by many as a potential replacement if Mr Cameron is forced to step down – agreed that the PM should “stay under any circumstances”.
Gove tried to play down personal attacks during the campaign.
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The Economists for Remain group issued a warning from more than 175 experts, including 12 Nobel Prize winners, that Brexit would make a recession “significantly more likely”. “We regret this decision but respect it”. Northern Ireland, the beneficiary of European Union funds, should consider a vote on reunification with Ireland, said Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
