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David Cameron giving his resignation speech outside his residence on Friday morning. |
Following the shocking result of Thursday's Brexit referendum in which the people of United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, UK prime minister, David Cameron has announced that he is going to step down.
In the historic referendum held on Thursday, 23rd day of June 2016, the
leave defeated the Stay meaning the Britain will no loner belong to the the Euro zone at least for the foreseeable future until such a time that another referendum will be conducted.
This has prompted Mr Cameron, who openly campaigned for Remain to announce his resignation. This is coming just about a year after he won the majority of the votes in the 2015 general elections.
This brings the British prime minister's 6yr reign to an abrupt end.
He made the shocking announcement on Friday morning while speaking to newsmen outside his number 10 Downing residence. Mr Cameron in his speech stated that, UK needs a fresh leadership following the brexit victory in the referendum. Read the full resignation speech below;
"Good morning everyone, the country has just taken part in a giant democratic exercise, perhaps the biggest in our history.
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 British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected.
I want to thank everyone who took part in the campaign on my side of
the argument, including all those who put aside party differences to
speak in what they believe was the national interest and let me
congratulate all those who took part in the Leave campaign for the
spirited and passionate case that they made.
The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered.
It was not a decision that was taken lightly, not least because so
many things were said by so many different organizations about the
significance of this decision.
So there can be no doubt about the result.
Across the world people have been watching the choice that Britain has made.
I would reassure those markets and investors that Britain's economy
is fundamentally strong and I would also reassure Britons living in
European countries and European citizens living here there will be no
immediate changes in your circumstances.
There will be no initial change in the way our people can travel, in
the way our goods can move or the way our services can be sold.
We must now prepare for a negotiation with the European Union.
This will need to involve the full engagement of the Scottish, Welsh
and Northern Ireland governments to ensure that the interests of all
parts of our United Kingdom are protected and advanced.
But above all this will require strong, determined and committed leadership.
I'm very proud and very honoured to have been Prime Minister of this country for six years.
I believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever
before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing
people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping
our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who
love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all
restoring Britain's economic strength"
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