Boris Johnson’s ascension to Conservative party leader and UK prime minister was predictable (EUROPE B12302A19). But his personality makes Brexit all the more unpredictable.
Who will EU Brexit negotiators encounter when (or if) talks restart? Will it be Boris Johnson, the die-hard Brexiteer, who is prepared to leave the EU, “do or die” by 31 October? Or will it be the pragmatist, who prepared a newspaper column in case Remain won the 2016 referendum, in which he called the EU “a...