2016-06-30washingtonpost.com

The question of who will lead Britain into its future outside the European Union -- a muddled mess for nearly a week -- was further scrambled Thursday, with the camp that had favored an exit splintering into warring tribes and forcing former London mayor Boris Johnson to drop from the contest to become prime minister.

...

Michael Gove, the bookish justice secretary who was regarded as the intellectual architect of the "leave" campaign, shocked the country's political establishment Thursday by announcing that he, too, would enter the fray.

This would validate the "conspiracy" theory that Boris was being set up... so looks like he reacted by simply getting out of the firing line...



Comments: Be the first to add a comment

add a comment | go to forum thread