What Happened to Boris

If you've wondered why the Tories dumped Brexit leader Boris Johnson when Leave passed, Janet Daley who writes for The Telegraph (U.K.) has a scenario that makes sense to me.

I honestly find the theories of a long-standing plot to replace Johnson with Gove when it came to the leadership contest hard to credit for precisely this reason: the Leave campaign did not expect to win. They therefore had no reason to anticipate, and plan for, the vacuum left by the resignation of David Cameron. Everybody was taken by surprise by the depth and breadth of public resistance to EU membership. Suddenly, when it was time to get serious, too many of the participants found the prospect of Boris turning into Prince Hal and renouncing his own inner Falstaff less than credible.

His Falstaff wasn't so very "inner," Boris likes playing the clown, being entertaining.