Former Minister Says Cameron ‘Wouldn’t Last 30 Seconds’ After Brexit Defeat

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Former Conservative cabinet minister, Ken Clarke, has warned that the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, “wouldn’t last 30 seconds” if voters back Brexit in the EU referendum. He stressed that the referendum campaign is leading the Tories to the brink of “civil war” and the party is facing “grave” consequences, whatever the outcome of the vote.

Mr. Clarke pointed out that feelings are running “very high” and coming to terms with the result will be a “devil of a job.” Whereas on the other hand, Mr Cameron reiterated last week that he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. According to Clarke, “the Prime Minister wouldn’t last 30 seconds if he lost the referendum and we’d be plunged into a Conservative leadership crisis which is never a very edifying sight.” He explained that “he’d be in a farcical position having campaigned for a position that’s been rejected. He’d be a Prime Minister facing a parliament in which the majority of the MPs wanted to remain in the EU. ‘Leave’ is in a minority in the Conservative parliamentary party.”

In addition to that, Mr. Clarke elucidated that “the House of Commons as a whole is overwhelmingly in favour of staying in the European Union. And the idea that David carries on saying: ‘Well despite what I’ve been saying in the last few weeks, I’m now going to lead a government which is going to leave the European Union and I’m going to sit down with you all and find out what it is you want to negotiate that will determine new arrangements for ourselves and our businesses and for our investors that secure a new base for us in the globalised economy’, I mean it’s just farcical.”