The circus music is winding down for BoJo the Clown

As mayor of London, he donned the persona of a likable, boosterish buffoon — the purposefully tousled hair, the ever-ready grin. And when, in Parliament, he saw the opportunity to use the Brexit question as a catapult to power, he seized it. While the beleaguered May was trying her best to negotiate an orderly British departure from the E.U., Johnson made her life miserable and her position, ultimately, untenable.