It is at this point that we might turn to the resignation of Margaret Thatcher and the lessons offered from those historic events back in November An explanatory model of prime ministerial power needs a number of elements: a recognition that the power of the Prime Minister is variable and therefore power within the core executive depends on context; a view that prime ministerial power depends on institutional resources as well as individual attributes; a definition of power as relational; and an acceptance that power is dependent on interaction rather than command.
There is mutual dependence within the core executive. The result was that her position was fatally undermined as events took over.
Smith reminds us that this model:. Instead ministers and the Prime Minister have resources. Power is their capacity to use these resources, but the use of resources is dependent on the particular circumstances of any situation…Power is relational and not a zero sum.
For Cameron, as with Blair, the knowledge that the end is pre-ordained, makes the nurturing of those crucial lines of dependence increasingly hard to sustain. Loyalty within both the Cabinet and the wider Parliamentary Party is already ebbing elsewhere. Perhaps voluntarily choosing to give up the highest office of state tells us something not only about Cameron as a person, but also of the nature of public office in the twenty-first century. It may be that Cameron wants to spend more time with his family, or he feels he has done what he can.
He was of course one of the youngest leaders of the Conservative Party and the youngest British Prime Minster in nearly two centuries. Even if Cameron does not have a private agreement with George Osborne who reportedly quipped that he had never been to the Granita restaurant , it would be churlish to deny he does not possess some sense of obligation over the succession.
Perhaps just the restaurant has changed , although, Cameron has been careful to regularly name-check other possible suitors when the opportunity has presented itself.
Yet this is exactly what Cameron has done. Whether or not events allow him to bow out at a time of his own choosing, what follows within the British tradition will be a swift, potentially brutal, goodbye and hand-over, as his most recent predecessor Gordon Brown discovered. There have been calls for him to consider his position after some of the strongest votes to leave the EU came from traditional Labour heartlands.
Senior backbencher Dame Margaret Hodge has tabled a motion of no confidence, which has the support of eight other Labour MPs, urging Mr Corbyn to resign.
The motion could be debated and voted on by Labour MPs next week. Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said Labour's leader had been "utterly gutless" in the way he approached the campaign. But major unions, which fund the party, have urged Labour MPs not to create a leadership crisis. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said his party needed to "gear up" for a possible snap election and that he was "disappointed" at Dame Margaret's intervention.
Mr Johnson said the UK was "no less united Meanwhile, at a press conference in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon said a second Scottish referendum was "on the table" and that the Scottish government would prepare legislation to enable one.
The European Parliament is to hold an emergency session on Tuesday to discuss the referendum result. Mark Easton, BBC home editor. The EU referendum has revealed an ancient, jagged fault line across the United Kingdom. It is a scar that has sliced through conventional politics and traditional social structures, and it is far from clear whether the kingdom can still call itself united.
The referendum was ostensibly about membership of the European Union. But voters took it to be asking a different question: what kind of country do you want Britain to be? Yesterday seemed to offer a fork in the road: one path Remain promised it would lead to a modern world of opportunity based on interdependence; the other Leave was advertised as a route to an independent land that would respect tradition and heritage.
Which path people took depended on the prism through which they saw the world. Read more from Mark. Emerging from Downing Street at around 8.
While some polls had suggested the Leave camp might be victorious in the EU referendum, the polls in the immediate run up to election day suggested that the Remain side might well win a very tight vote. However, that was not the case. Cameron staked his position as Prime Minister on a Remain vote, something he repeatedly told the British people was in their best interests.
The question was not whether Cameron would continue as Prime Minister, but when he would resign and in what way. The London stock market plunged at the start of trading at 8am on Friday, as a wave of selling swept the City amid fears about the economic consequences of Britain trying to survive outside the EU single market.
The FTSE plunged by points at one stage, a fall of 8. But the blue-chip index then stabilised, and is currently down points, or 5. The pound has clawed back from its worst lows, but is still down 7. It has lost 13 cents since the polls closed on Thursday night, when opinion polls suggested a remain victory. Labour will hold a shadow cabinet meeting on Friday morning to calibrate its response.
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