2016-07-01 18:30

Brexit Means Brexit: Johnson’s Fall Reduces Room for EU-Turn

30/06/2016. London, United Kingdom. Boris Johnson canceling his Leadership campaign.  XINHUA/SIPA
30/06/2016. London, United Kingdom. Boris Johnson canceling his Leadership campaign. XINHUA/SIPA
Boris Johnson’s dramatic withdrawal from the Conservative leadership race he was favored to win may make it likelier the U.K. will leave the European Union.

While Johnson led the “Leave” campaign, his relatively late conversion to the cause sowed doubts among some analysts and politicians about his commitment to carrying out a process that’s bound to be long and painful.

“If there is one British politician who could pull off a U-turn shamelessly, fudge things and keep the U.K. in, with chutzpah, it was Johnson,” Simon Tilford, deputy-director of the European Center for European Reform, said in a phone interview.

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