Boris Johnson pays tribute to PM and hails Brexit victory

The Brexit-backing former defence secretary made his comments after former leader Iain Duncan Smith said the new Tory prime minister must come from the Leave camp.

Cameron said he accepted the decision of the voters but would leave it to his successor to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which kicks off the two-year process of negotiating a new trade relationship with the UK’s former partners. I’m very proud and very honoured to have been prime minister of this country for six years.

She added that if Mr Johnson and Mrs May were unable to agree, another pair of MPs from either side of the referendum divide could step forward to “bring Britain back together”. Turnout in the referendum was 71.8% – with more than 30 million people voting.

“The whole continent is once more held hostage due to domestic deliberations in the British conservative party”, said Schulz.

And he sought to reassure voters that “nothing will change over the short term” as the United Kingdom moves to wards exit from the EU.

Johnson is now the favourite to take over from Cameron after he led the Leave campaign to success in Thursday’s vote.

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Mr Cameron said he would reassure markets and investors that Britain’s economy “is fundamentally strong”.

“And when I confronted Boris with all of this, all he will ever say to me is “it will be alright, it will all be alright”.

He added: “We can not turn our backs on Europe”.

David Cameron called the vote under pressure from his ruling Conservative Party which wants to put to rest decades of debate over Britain’s place in Europe and its ties with Brussels.

Meanwhile. European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said it was meaningless to wait until October for the British to leave the EU.

Johnson, the ex-London Mayor who spearheaded the victorious pro-Brexit campaign in Britain’s European Union referendum, is expected to officially launch a bid imminently.

Other successful proponents of the Leave campaign Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom are also believed to have a good chance at landing the top job.

Swathes of campaigners crowd round him, and the auto waiting outside his Islington home.

The police’s protective cordon helps the auto leave as Johnson is driven away.

The “Leave Campaign” prevailed after voters in Wales and the English shires backed Brexit in large numbers, despite massive support for the “Remain Campaign” in Scotland and major cities including London.

Boris Johnson surrounded by police as he views the crowd of journalists and protesters assembled outside his home.