After running a divisive fact-free campaign and unleashing a rising tide of racism across the UK, there are now no Brexiteers in any leadership positions.
Boris Johnson, the loudest and most populist of Brexiteers, failed to launch a leadership bid for the Tory party after he was “stabbed in the front” by former ally Michael Gove.
Having ousted his former friend, Gove’s lack of loyalty and political toxicity after making a number of disastrous attempts to reform public education, only managed to find only 46 supporters amongst Tory MPs.
UKIP’s Nigel Farage resigned from the party he co-founded in the wake of the EU referendum result, shortly after attending a garden party with top Tories and Rupert Murdoch, and UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall has also said he will resign at the party’s next national conference.
Today, Andrea Leadsom, the last Brexiteer standing, has quit the Conservative leadership race, paving the way for Theresa May to become prime minister.
Where are the Brexiteers with a plan? Where are the voices that promised £350m a week for the NHS if we left the EU? After convincing the British public to jump into the unknown on the basis of impossible promises, now the UK faces the problems they created, they have all jumped ship and left others with the job of trying to fix their mess.
