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David Cameron gets sick after three years with bulky 750-page memories and a cascade of accusations against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom he accuses of lying, behaving "terribly" and leaving him "in a swamp", when he took the decision to defend the exit of the European Union in the referendum.

The former conservative leader strongly criticizes Johnson for "throwing away" his own Government in 2016 and for his recent decision to expel the 21 "rebel" deputies from the party and temporarily suspend Parliament to avoid blocking to his plans for Brexit. Cameron warns that "a second referendum may be necessary" to get out of the political paralysis that the country is experiencing.

In explosive declarations to 'The Times', on the occasion of the imminent publication of 'For the record' ('For the record'), Cameron contributes in his way to stoke the fire declared in the Conservative Party, among the growing internal divisions and in the prelude to the annual conference in Manchester.

"Brexit depresses me , " the former president acknowledged in any case, who had trouble sleeping for a while and dragged a sense of guilt over the convening of the popular consultation, which resulted in a four-point victory in favor of the EU exit (52% to 48%).

"I keep thinking about it every day," says Cameron. "Every day I think about the referendum and about the fact of having lost, about the consequences and about how different things could have been. I am desperately worried about what can happen from now on."

Cameron is justified on the grounds that he had no choice but to summon him by internal pressures and to the conviction that "the matter would not fade away." Against those who criticize him for his lightness in the call, two years after the independence referendum in Scotland, he says that the EU's popular consultation was "the most thoughtful decision of my Government".

The former premier acknowledges that to some extent he had foreseen the "rebellion" of the then Secretary of Justice Michael Gove , considered a long-time Eurosceptic. Cameron now directly calls Gove (currently responsible for preparations for the EU's exit at Johnson's cabinet) for using "a false narrative" during the campaign, with arguments such as Turkey's entry into the European Union.

The former prime minister says, however, that the unchecking of his old colleague at Eaton and Oxford Boris Johnson caught him by surprise. "Boris had never defended the exit of the EU, right?" He asks naively, as if he did not take into account his past as a "Eurosceptic" correspondent in Brussels for 'The Daily Telegraph'.

In any case, Cameron accuses both Boris and Gove of behaving "horribly" and having taken the fight between the conservatives themselves "to a place I never imagined." The former conservative leader admits that his old colleagues exploited the issue of immigration and knew how to reach voters with "an emotional message" in the Vote Leave campaign, while the campaign for permanence remained in "technical and economic arguments."

HarperCollins publisher bought the rights to David Cameron's memoirs for 800,000 pounds (900,000 euros), compared to 4.6 million pounds (5.3 million euros) received by former Labor Premier Tony Blair for his memoirs. The publication of the book, written in a cottage of 30,000 euros in the garden of his country house in Oxfordshire, suffered several delays and its publication is scheduled for September 19.

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