“It is said that those who voted Leave were mainly driven by anxieties about immigration,” Mr. Johnson wrote. But playing down immigration, Mr. Goodwin said, could create more political trouble. “There was no coherence, because it wasn’t a political party fighting for government, but an odd coalition fighting against something, but with no consistent view of what it was fighting for,” he said. “I do not believe that is so.”Suggesting that he wants to keep some kind of open flow of people across the border with Europe, Mr. Johnson wrote, “British people will still be able to go and work in the E.U. is concerned, is a messy, complex thing.”Mr. Johnson is clearly looking to unite the divided Conservative Party behind his own, flamboyant self and to burnish his free-market economic credentials.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2016 14:10 UTC