If you are given the responsibility to vote (or to lead a campaign), you should be willing to accept the consequences of the result wholeheartedly. If Boris Jo

If you are given the responsibility to vote (or to lead a campaign), you should be willing to accept the consequences of the result wholeheartedly. If Boris Johnson or whichever leader of the "Leave" movement replaces Cameron, they need to trigger Article 50 (and accept whatever consequences that arise from the exit). Failure of which will cast doubt on their conviction for leaving the EU. This will cast a pall over their time in office. Cameron's move to resign is a shrewd and calculated one. While he is already culpable for calling the referendum in the first place, he is placing the responsibility of triggering Article 50 on the people who so fervently called for it.