Ex-PM David Cameron 'sorry' for creating Brexit divisions

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Last Updated : Sep 15 2019 | 12:20 AM IST

The British prime minister who called the 2016 Brexit referendum and then saw the public vote to leave the European Union, creating the nation's prolonged political crisis, says he is sorry for the divisions it has caused.

David Cameron said in an interview published Saturday that he thinks about the consequences of the Brexit referendum "every single day" and worries "desperately" about what will happen next.

"I deeply regret the outcome and accept that my approach failed," he said.

"The decisions I took contributed to that failure. I failed."
Johnson, who faces an October 31 deadline for leaving the EU, has said he plans to leave on that day "do or die."
Cameron also turned to Twitter on Saturday to draw more attention to his book and the excerpts being published in The Times, tweeting "for 3 years

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First Published: Sep 15 2019 | 12:20 AM IST

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