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Boris Johnson Is the EU’s Worst Nightmare
Europe’s top civil servant once described his potential leadership as a ‘horror scenario.’
- Ian Wishart
- Bloomberg
For European leaders watching Theresa May’s political death throes, a sense of inevitability has been replaced by one of fear.
Rather than break the deadlock over Brexit, the departure of the British prime minister raises the prospect of what they’ve long considered their worst nightmare: a U.K. run by Boris Johnson, the…
If May was predictable and her strategy clear, albeit flawed, many EU chiefs think of Johnson as a lying populist who wants to destroy the bloc. Privately, officials use his name as shorthand for a…