Those unhappy with Brexit chaos seem to blame David Cameron more than any other politician
“FOR THREE years I have kept relatively quiet about politics,” David Cameron tweeted on September 14th. His silence will soon be broken. On September 19th Britain’s former prime minister’s memoir, “For The Record”, is due to hit bookshops, offering a first-hand account of the Brexit referendum that led to his resignation in 2016. The book provides scathing assessments of Conservatives who backed the Leave campaign instead of supporting the government’s push to remain in the European Union.
Mr Cameron is rueful about the way the referendum played out. “I deeply regret the outcome and accept that my approach failed,” he writes. But he insists that he was right to organise it, since a public vote was “ultimately inevitable”. The former prime minister says that he is often harangued in the street by people who blame him for the chaos that the referendum created. “There are those who will never forgive me for holding it,” he laments.
Surveys by YouGov, a pollster, confirm that hindsight has tarnished Mr Cameron’s legacy. In August 2016, when he had been out of Downing Street for less than a month and an orderly departure from the EU seemed straightforward, 32% of Britons thought he had done a “great” or “good” job; only 34% gave him poor marks. Today he is Britain’s most disliked politician. According to YouGov, 61% of respondents have a negative opinion of him, compared with just 16% who view him positively.
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