CALLING a vote on Britain’s membership of the European Union was ‘the right thing to do’, David Cameron has insisted.

The former Prime Minister, Witney’s MP from 2001 to 2016, said the controversial issue had been ‘poisoning politics for years’.

He was speaking on Wednesday – the day his successor, Theresa May, triggered the Brexit process – during a visit to Kiev, in Ukraine. “The result is not the result that I sought,” Mr Cameron said.

But he added: “It was a decisive result and that’s why Theresa May quite rightly is taking the next step to ensuring the people’s will is followed through.”