The Conservatives may have astoundingly won the general election with an overall majority, Prime Minister David Cameron, did not appear very certain and had been rehearsing his resignation speech amidst his closest aides.
Details have emerged that Cameron had gathered advisers on the patio of his Oxfordshire home to practice a statement announcing he would quit Downing Street. However, hours later, the results showed that the Tories had triumphed.
Although days before the elections the Conservatives claimed to know that they would be victorious, David Cameron seemed skeptical. He was preparing to resign if Labour had managed to win the election.
A spectator reported, “At 6.30 p.m. on 7 May, the Camerons invited guests at their home in Oxfordshire into the garden for a drink,. Everyone stood on the patio, wrapped up in coats and shawls and drinking wine. They were understandably nervous. The Prime Minister had prepared a resignation statement and read it out to the assembled gathering.”
Among the small group gathered at his house were the Prime Minister's closest aides and oldest political friends.
