The only solution to the Brexit chaos is another British election

An unnamed friend of Boris Johnson was quoted last Friday as saying it was “sad and very disappointing” that his private dinner speech in which he warned of a Brexit “meltdown” was covertly recorded and widely leaked to the media.

It is a sadness that Johnson has no doubt recovered from, given that his remarks quickly stole the limelight from the Brexit secretary, David Davis, who had dominated headlines in the previous 24 ...