United States fears Brexit repercussion on its goals in Europe

Mr Kerry, when asked by the panel moderator if a Brexit decision could be “walked back”, reportedly told the ideas festival audience it could be done, although he didn’t at this stage want to say how.

During the press conference following Kerry’s meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Kerry said on Monday the Brexit vote did not come out the way he, US President Barack Obama and others hoped that it would, but that’s democracy, expressing their respect for the rights of the voters and the process.

“One would think it’s all going well with the economy, no significant layoffs – but then I thought, maybe there was something in that briefcase that you could not entrust to anyone, something valuable”.

In the June 23 referendum, about 52 percent of British voters opted to leave the EU, while roughly 48 percent of the people voted to stay in the union.

AFP said Kerry described Cameron as “feeling powerless” and “loathe to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty”. I think that would be a mistake.

The White House openly opposed the Brexit movement. I don’t as secretary of state want to throw them out today.

Speaking in the U.S. after a round of crisis talks in London and Brussels, Mr Kerry said that most senior Brexiteers did not know how to achieve it. The most prominent Leave campaigner in a major party, Conservative Boris Johnson, wrote Monday that Brexit “will not come in any great rush”. And as it appears that they are perfectly willing to ignore the will of the people, they will stop at nothing to get what they want.

The Obama Administration – in which Kerry has served since 2012 – has made no secret of its opposition to the Brexit decision.

On Tuesday, EU officials were pressuring Britain to start the process of leaving, to end the increasingly awkward standoff.

EU Council President Donald Tusk said Tuesday the bloc’s leaders want United Kingdom exit plans to “to be specified as soon as possible”.

Instead European and American leaders must “look for ways to maintain strength that will serve the interests and the values that brought us together in the first place”.