Boris Johnson: Britain's great Brexit gambler

LONDON: is intimately familiar with Brussels. Now he is leading Britain definitively out of the European project, armed with a four-and-a-half years after launching the biggest gamble of his career. The Conservative prime minister spent part of his childhood in the EU capital, where his father Stanley worked for the European Commission, and lived there again as a journalist in the 1990s when he was given to tall tales about bureaucratic skullduggery. It was perhaps understandable if he felt torn about which way to leap in Britain's 2016 referendum, famously drawing up a list of pros and cons for EU membership before throwing his considerable political charisma behind the...