Boris Johnson emerges as the winner after British referendum

LONDON, June 24 Ex-London mayor Boris Johnson, a leading campaigner for Britain to leave the European Union and the bookmakers’ favourite to replace David Cameron as Prime Minister, said nothing would change over the short term following the Brexit vote.

Favourite to succeed Cameron is Boris Johnson, the leading Brexiteer and former London mayor.

He said nothing to waiting reporters as he was escorted to his vehicle by police officers with shouts of “scumbag” ringing in his ear.

“This letter exposes the reality that David Cameron and the Conservative Party are now utterly preoccupied with leadership infighting rather than the future of the country”, he said.

And it came as UKIP leader Nigel Farage seemed to have conceded that the Remain side had edged the victory.

Johnson said “I believe David Cameron is one of most extra-ordinary politicians of our age”.

Insisting there was “no need for haste”, he said “nothing would change over the short term except that work will have to begin on how to give effect to the will of the people and how to extricate this country from the supranational system”.

“Between those who have been endlessly rubbishing our country and running it down, and those of us who believe in Britain”.

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“There can not be any special treatment for the United Kingdom”.

Characterising Leave supporters as “gravediggers of our prosperity”, Sir John Major said leaving the European Union was “no solution” to large-scale population movements around the world and may result in a “broken Britain with less importance and less influence in the world”.

Cameron, who has appeared alongside ex-PM Sir John Major and former Labour leader Harriet Harman in Bristol, says the decision will be irreversible and there will no coming back if the United Kingdom votes to leave.

Anand Menon, director of the UK In A Changing Europe academic research group, added: “Nationalist politicians, be they in Scotland, Northern Ireland or England, will be making hay”.

This insistence on a “hard exit” is aimed at discouraging other countries from wanting to leave the bloc in the belief that they might be able to negotiate a comfortable partnership from the outside.

Republicans Sinn Fein have already called for a vote on uniting Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland after the Brexit vote.