Speech: David Cameron resigns as UK shocks the world by voting Brexit

David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister.

In a speech outside 10 Downing Street he said:

“The British people have voted to leave the EU and their will must be respected.

The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered.

There can be no doubt about the result.

Across the world people have been watching the choice that Britain has made.

This will require strong, determined and committed leadership.

I am very proud to have been Prime Minister of this country for six years.

I have held nothing back.

The british people have made a very clear decision to

I think the country requires fresh leadership.

I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination.

In my view I think we should have a new prime minister in place by the start of the Conservative conference in October.”

There are now suggestions that David Cameron is planning to resign at 8am.

” The President has been briefed on the incoming returns in the UK referendum, and he will continue to be updated by his team as the situation warrants. We expect the President will have an opportunity to speak to Prime Minister Cameron over the course of the next day, and we will release further comment as soon as appropriate.”

Ukip leader Nigel Farage calls for a Brexit government immediately to start negotiating UK’s new place in the world.

Jeremy Corbyn has provoked a furious backlash from Labour MPs after calling on the Government to immediately start the process of withdrawing from the European Union.

The Labour leader said that Article 50 needs to be “invoked now” in response to the EU referendum result because “many communities are fed up with cuts and economic dislocation.

Labour MPs, who repeatedly warned that Mr Corbyn was failing to do enough during the referendum campaign, said he was “absolutely crazy”.

It comes after a leaked Labour script claimed that Jeremy Corbyn is “uniquely placed as a critical Remainer” to help unify Britain in the wake of the referendum.

His comments led to accusations that he is “delusional” and led to open calls for him to quit.

Mr Corbyn said: “Article 50 needs to be invoked now. Many communities are fed up with cuts and very angry. The message is that many communities are fed up with cuts and economic dislocation. Clearly there are very difficult days ahead. There will be job consequences.”

Steven Swinford, deputy political editor

This map shows the stark divisions between Scotland, Northern Ireland and London, which were pro-EU and the rest of England and Wales which were pro-Brexit.

The result now raises very serious questions about the future of the Union.

Jeremy Corbyn has stopped short of calling for David Cameron to resign but said that “the Prime Minister has some very urgent tasks ahead of him”.

In an interview with the BBC’s David Dimbleby, he warned: “There are some very difficult days ahead. There will be job consequences because of this decision.”

He added: “People are fed up with the cuts they have had and feel very angry about the way they have been marginalised by successive governments.

“Obviously there has to be a strategy but the whole point is that the public were asked to give an opinion, they gave an opinion and parliament must act upon that.”

Laurence Fabius, the French Foreign minister, says: “I am sad for the United Kingdom. Europe continues, but she must react and rediscover the confidence of the people. It is urgent.”

Charles Michel, the Belgian prime minister, calls for a summit to relaunch the EU.

“I call for a conclave to reaffirm our commitment in July. We have to define our priorities and set out a new future for Europe.”

The final results have just been announced at Manchester Town Hall.

There were 33,577,342 votes cast with Remain securing 16,141,241 votes and Leave 17,410,742.

A Labour MP tells the Telegraph this morning: “Corbyn has to go. The referendum proved he is worse than even his worse critics said he would be. Even people who supported him have seen he is not up to it. He can’t motivate Labour voters, let alone persuade anyone else. He can’t handle a campaign or even manage to get a message across in an interview.

“But it is not just that he is incompetent and not up to the job: he has no ideas beyond the vacuous slogans he repeats. He hasn’t set out a single serious policy since he became leader and the views he does have – like on immigration and free movement – are diametrically opposed to the public’s.

The Gibraltar Chronicle reports that the British territory voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, with Gibraltarians fearing that Brexit will antagonise already testy relations with Spain.

“Gibraltar voted by 19,322 votes to 823 to stay in the EU, meaning 96% of the electorate chose Remain,” the newspaper says this morning.

Turnout was high at 84 per cent.

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said: “This result demonstrates that the will of the people of Gibraltar is overwhelming to remain a part of the European Union. Gibraltar and the Gibraltarians, perhaps more so than many others have ‘skin in the game’ of staying a part of Europe. Europe matters to us and we demonstrate that tonight.”

So the overall vote to leave the EU will come as a bitter blow to the British territory.

The final results have come in and the nation voted 52% for leave, 48% for remain.

Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, said he would speak with German Chancellor Angela Merkel “on how we can avoid a chain reaction” of other EU states following.

“The chain reaction that is being celebrated everywhere now by euroskeptics won’t happen,” he said.

The EU was the biggest single market in the world and “Great Britain has just cut its ties with that market,” Schulz said.

“That’ll have consequences and I don’t believe other countries will be encouraged to follow that dangerous path.”

“I am not shocked,” he said of the results of the British referendum, adding: “We were prepared.”

Matthew Holehouse, Brussels Correspondent

The Labour leader has been pictured leaving his Islington home this morning.