David Cameron has resigned as prime minister after the British public voted to leave the European Union.
“The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered,” the prime minister said in Downing Street on Friday morning.
Cameron promised to remain in post until the autumn, to “steady the ship”, but said: “I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain who steers the country to its next destination.”
He said he had already spoken to the Queen to make his plans clear; but would not yet trigger article 50, the clause in the Lisbon treaty that kicks off the two-year process of withdrawal from the EU.
Cameron said: “I am honoured to have been prime minister of this country for six years.
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