Boris Johnson and the Crisis of British Leadership

Having started out as a drama and turned into a tragedy, the Brexit story line has now descended into farce. On a day when the governor of the Bank of England indicated that he and his colleagues would have to take emergency action to protect the British economy from the disastrous results of last week’s vote, Boris Johnson, the mop-topped Tory cheerleader for the Leave campaign, took to a podium at St. Ermin’s Hotel, in Westminster, and said, “This is not a time to quail; it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt.”