Cameron’s resignation sparks leadership contest
The resignation announcement by British Prime Minister David Cameron has sparked a leadership contest over who to lead a Brexit government after Britain voted to leave the European Union.
One day after nearly 52 percent of British voters opted to leave the EU in a referendum on Thursday, Cameron said that he would leave office in fall- by October- when his ruling Conservative Party will hold a conference.
The announcement prompted some politicians, including Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, and Michael Gove, a Brexit campaigner and the Justice Secretary, to begin preparations for a bid to take control of the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Johnson, who was speaking at the Vote Leave headquarters on Friday, positioned himself as a Prime Minister in waiting.
“I want to speak to the millions of people who did not vote for this outcome especially young people who may feel that this decision in some way involves pulling up the drawbridge or any kind of isolationism. I think the very opposite is true.
“To those who may be anxious at home or abroad this does not mean that that he UK will be in anyway less united nor indeed does it mean that it will be any less European.”
Gove, who was phoned by Cameron before he made his resignation speech, called for great minds "outside of politics" in order to help make the changes necessary to leave the EU.
"We have always been an open, inclusive, tolerant and generous nation," Gove said.
"Now we have a new chance to extend that openness even further, we can build a new stronger and more positive relationship with our European neighbors based on free trade and cooperation."
The Tories will begin a leadership contest, overseen by the party’s backbench 1922 committee. MPs will choose a shortlist of two people and this will be followed by a vote among the party’s grassroots members to make the final decision.
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