Brexit means Brexit: Johnson's fall reduces room for EU-turn

"If there is one British politician who could pull off a U-turn shamelessly, fudge things and keep the UK in, with chutzpah, it was Johnson," Simon Tilford, deputy-director of the Centre for European Reform, said in a phone interview.

...Tilford makes the case that Johnson was "just an opportunist" while Gove is "a genuine outer." As for May, she was quick to say there must be no attempts to rejoin the union "through the back door and no second referendum."