{"id":6721,"date":"2016-06-24T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2016-06-24T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:51:26","slug":"david-cameron-set-to-resign-as-uk-votes-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/david-cameron-set-to-resign-as-uk-votes-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron set to resign as UK votes to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5377\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Cameron.jpg\" alt=\"Cameron\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is to resign within four months after losing the referendum on his country\u2019s European Union membership.<br \/>\nCameron said the U.K. needed \u201cstrong leadership\u201d to conduct exit negotiations with the European Union and that he would leave office by the time of his party\u2019s conference in October.<br \/>\n\u201cI fought this campaign in the only way I know how, which is to say directly and passionately what I think and feel \u2013 head, heart and soul,\u201d he said in a statement delivered on Friday morning outside 10 Downing Street, with his wife Samantha standing by his side.<br \/>\n\u201cI held nothing back, I was absolutely clear about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off inside the European Union and I made clear the referendum was about this and this alone \u2013 not the future of any single politician, including myself.<br \/>\n\u201cBut the British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction.\u201d<br \/>\nCameron said he would continue in office until his Conservative Party elected a successor to whom he would leave the decision to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty \u2013 the mechanism for leaving the EU.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/david-cameron-set-to-resign-as-uk-votes-to-leave\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is to resign within four months after losing the referendum on his country\u2019s European Union membership. Cameron said the U.K. needed \u201cstrong leadership\u201d to conduct exit negotiations with the European Union and that he would leave office by the time of his party\u2019s conference in October. \u201cI fought this campaign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}