Former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said in an interview that he called Barack Obama to tell him he regretted how the Brexit referendum in 2016 turned out.

“I am sorry,” Cameron said he told President Obama and European leaders in an interview Friday with The Times. Obama, 58, warned before the vote that a British exit from the European Union would put them in the “back of the queue” in trade talks.

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