David Cameron does a runner after admitting he regrets Brexit chaos sparked by his referendum – but still insists he was right to call vote

DAVID Cameron has admitted he DOES regret the chaos unleashed by his decision to call a Brexit referendum.

But the ex-Prime Minister, who is now writing his memoirs in a luxury hut in Cornwall, insisted he was RIGHT to call the vote.

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Speaking just hours after Theresa May was humiliated with a huge defeat over her Brexit deal on Tuesday night, the former premier insisted he was correct to keep a promise he made in the 2015 election manifesto, which was backed by all parties.

Asked if he was sorry for calling the referendum in 2016, he said: "I don't regret calling the referendum... it was a promise I made."

However, he said he was sorry that he lost the vote - and for the utter chaos that the vote has unleashed on Britain.

Mr Cameron told the BBC yesterday before he popped out for a run: "Obviously I regret that we lost that referendum, I deeply regret that - I was leading the campaign to stay in the European Union."

He admitted there were "difficulties and problems we’ve been having trying to implement the result of that referendum."

He urged Parliament to "come together and find an alternative partnership agreement with the European Union" rather than leave the EU without a deal on March 29.

But the trouble is, no one knows what MPs will back in the House of Commons - and what the PM really wants.

As the PM fights for her political life to fight a Brexit deal that MPs will support

• The PM continued talks with opposition MPs in the wake of her Commons defeat on Tuesday
• Rebel Tories launched a new bid to force a second referendum
• Brexiteers warned Mrs May not to split the party by going for a soft Brexit
• Conservative grandee William Hague predicted a General Election within weeks
• Tony Blair insisted Britain has no choice but to delay our EU departure

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The passionate pro-European campaigned for David Cameron for Remain in the 2016 referendum alongside Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock

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The news comes after the PM was slapped with a damning defeat in the Commons.

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