Boris Johnson Wins, and Britain Chooses the Devil It Knows

Speaking before dawn at Conservative Party headquarters on Friday morning, Boris Johnson celebrated “a huge, great stonking mandate” from the British people, after his party won an overwhelming victory in Thursday’s election. The Conservatives now have three hundred and sixty-four members of Parliament—a majority of almost eighty over the the other parties—and enormous freedom to govern for the next five years. The vote is a turning point. It is the best result for the Tories since 1987, and the first time since the days of Margaret Thatcher that the Party...