David Cameron under pressure to resign as PM after Britain votes to leave the EU
By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Correspondent
24 June 2016 • 5:37am
David Cameron will be under immediate pressure to quit as Prime Minister if Britain has voted to leave the European Union as expected.
Despite more than 80 Tory MPs signing a letter saying Mr Cameron has a “mandate and a duty” to remain in post, scores of Conservatives now believe he cannot stay in Number 10 for long.
Hilary Benn, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, and Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, are among leading opposition figures who have already said Mr Cameron will have to leave office.
Critics are expected to ask how a sitting Prime Minister can remain in post when more than half of the country’s voters have defied him on the biggest political decision for a generation.
However MPs from across the political divide urged Mr Osborne and his chancellor, George Osborne, to stay in an attempt to oversee a period of “calm”, saying Mr Cameron had a “mandate and a duty” to continue as Prime Minister.
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