‘Not sure sorry is enough’: Baroness Warsi says Brexit vote was held to keep Tory party together The host asked her: “Isn’t that just the most reckless awful politics, to have done that? To have gambled the country’s future like that.’

Baroness Warsi, who was a minister in David Cameron‘s coalition Government expressed remorse for the circumstances that lead up to Brexit conceding that it was an example of “reckless, awful politics.”

The peer, who served in a number of roles under David Cameron when he was Prime Minister, admitted that the EU referendum was held to keep the Conservative Party together and insufficient plans were made for Britain voting to leave the EU.

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She told Krishnan Guru-Murthy on the Channel 4 News Ways To Change the World podcast that: “I think that even if you were to speak to David (Cameron) he will probably tell you that I’m not sure that anybody within the Conservative Party thought that we were going to win that election.”

“Therefore, there was a little bit of placating of our own side in the run to the election in the hope that thereafter: ‘Would we or would we not deliver that referendum?'”

Reckless awful politics

She agreed with the presenter’s point that they felt that there would be another coalition with the Liberal Democrats, who would block the plans. “That was definitely the sense that I got.”

The host asked her: “Isn’t that just the most reckless awful politics, to have done that? To have gambled the country’s future like that.”

“Yep, it is,” she said. After a short pause, Guru-Murthy asked, “shouldn’t someone say sorry?”

“I’m not sure sorry is enough,” she said. “I think that the best way we can deal with it is to make sure that we deliver a Brexit now which, one, keeps the country together, but in the long term, make sure that we remain a vibrant successful nation.”

Make a success of Brexit

“I think that is possible and I think in many ways if there is somebody who could potentially do that I think the prime minister could.”

“For somebody who probably would never want to serve in a cabinet where Theresa May is Prime Minister, I still believe that she does have the tenacity and the character – in these incredibly difficult times – to be able to find some sort of solution to the mess that has been created.”

Victim of his own victory

David Cameron resigned shortly after Britain voted to leave the EU, having run a failed campaign for the UK to stay inside the union.

European Council President Donald Tusk has also said that the Conservative Prime Minister told him he had not expected to win the 2015 election and have to deliver on his promise to hold a referendum.

Mr Tusk recounted in a BBC documentary “(He told me) he felt really safe, because he thought at the same time that there’s no risk of a referendum, because, his coalition partner, the Liberals, would block this idea of a referendum.”

“But then, surprisingly, he won and there was no coalition partner. So paradoxically David Cameron became the real victim of his own victory.”