On Brexit, U.K. now headed for the worst of all possible outcomes

The risk of Britain careening into a ‘disorderly’ no-deal Brexit is ‘alarmingly high,’ Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned last month.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, pictured in May, will say goodbye to No. 10 on June 7, having found no way forward for her Brexit deal. Photograph courtesy of the office of the U.K. prime minister

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 29, 2019

OTTAWA—For months in Europe, the question everyone asked about British Prime Minister Theresa May was: why does she cling to power in the face of repeated national rejection, public humiliation and back-stabbing within her own Conservative Party? The tenacious Tory leader finally threw in her car...

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