LONDON: David Cameron, former British prime minister finally broke his silence Friday and admitted that the 2016 Brexit referendum result made him depressed.
The former Conservative Party leader walked away from 10 Downing Street less than a month after British people voted in June that year to leave the European Union (EU) by a 52-48 margin. More than three years later, nobody knows how the Brexit saga will end, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson remaining convinced that a deal with Brussels will be struck by the Oct. 31 deadline when Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc, despite a multitude of hurdles to navigate.
In an in-depth interview on Friday with British newspaper The Times, Cameron said he recognized some people will never forgive him for holding a referendum, but he thinks a referendum was “inevitable.”
“This issue needed to be addressed and I thought a referendum was coming, so better to try to get some reforms we needed and have a referendum,” the Eton-educated politician said.
(Agencies)
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