Former British PM David Cameron, who called the Brexit referendum, says he’s ‘sorry’ about the consequences
- David Cameron resigned after the results of the 2016 Brexit referendum came out
- In a new memoir, he says he deeply regrets the outcome, and worries ‘desperately’ about what will happen next
David Cameron said in an interview published on Saturday that he thinks about the consequences of the Brexit referendum “every single day” and worries “desperately” about what will happen next.
“I deeply regret the outcome and accept that my approach failed,” he said. “The decisions I took contributed to that failure. I failed.
“I did not fully anticipate the strength of feeling that would be unleashed both during the referendum and afterwards,” he said.
He admitted that many people blame him for the Brexit divisions that have deepened since the referendum and will never forgive him, but he defended his decision to call the vote.
He spoke to The Times newspaper to promote his soon-to-be-published memoir. Cameron, who had supported remaining in the EU, resigned the morning after the 2016 referendum. He has stayed out of electoral politics since then and largely kept out of the public eye.