Brexit’s Endgame Leaves Brexiteers Behind

Four years ago, hard-line Brexiteers helped David Cameron win the premiership of the U.K., and he rewarded them with a chance to sell the country on Brexit. They defied the odds and made it happen, beginning a lengthy political process that has had all the quiet dignity of a clown disco on the Titanic.

Now this depressing shindig is nearing a key turning point that threatens to make fools of the Brexiteers who got it started, writes Therese Raphael. Events this week have stripped Cameron’s successor, Theresa May, of much of her power and made a soft Brexit, or no Brexit at all, more likely than ever, Therese notes. By making “promises they couldn’t keep and then demands that were non-negotiable,” Therese writes, hard-line Brexiteers squandered their power, possibly leaving them out in the cold for the rest of the Brexit process.