GETTY Trade secretary Liam Fox said he felt “tearful” as the result was announced

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The new trade secretary, who played a major role in winning the referendum, told a fringe meeting at the Tory conference in Birmingham that he felt “tearful” as the result was announced. He said: “I am not normally very emotional about politics. But I have to say and I am sure I am not the only one who was really quite tearful when David Dimbleby said ‘and that’s it, the British public have voted to leave the European Union.’” In a swipe that legions mustered by David Cameron in Remain campaign, he spoke of his pride of British voters in standing up to Project Fear.

He said: “I just felt that, given all those big international organisations who had been telling us how dire it would be if we left, I have never felt so proud of my fellow country men and women as I did in that moment. “And I thought ‘you have taken on all the doomsayers you have really have faith in what Britain can do, you really believe in a country and yourselves.’ “No matter what happens to me in politics that will always be the single moment that I remember the most. That was history being made. Just to be part of that I cannot begin to describe how that felt.”

GETTY Dr Fox praised Theresa May’s “methodical approach” to Brexit

He drew laughter when asked about the “flat share” at Chevening, the foreign secretary’s country house” which is shared with Dr Fox and Brexit Secretary David Davis. He said: “I did not return to the cabinet for a country house.” And he said he already had one in his own constituency. He said: “When you constituency is in North Somerset and you have one of the best vistas to look out on you don’t need another country home.”

Dr Fox praised Theresa May’s “methodical approach” to Brexit, arguing that “we need the right deal not a quick deal” and likening it to his work as a doctor where a “proper analysis is done of the problem” before deciding on the solution.

I did not return to the cabinet for a country house Liam Fox

But he was fiercely critical of Mr Cameron for blocking any work being done on Brexit before the result. He said: “I happen to think that during the referendum some of those options should have been done in case there was a leave vote and I think the idea that civil servants were banned from doing that work was a very big mistake.”

GETTY He described the result as an 'instruction by the voters'

He also said that Remain critics of the Government like former Cabinet ministers Nicky Morgan and Ken Clarke who claim there is “no plan” do not know the “substantial work” now being done because they are “outside the government.” Dr Fox also slammed those who thought the result can be ignored or reversed. He described the result as an “instruction by the voters.”

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