Boris Johnson - Getty Up until early Wednesday evening, Britain’s post-referendum political transfer of power appeared to be going remarkably smoothly. David Cameron managed a good-natured, jokey final prime minister’s questions session that also offered a brief respite to embattled Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Incoming Prime Minister Theresa May was photographed kissing hands with a beaming Queen Elizabeth before delivering a remarkably well received inaugural speech.And then, news broke that Boris Johnson had been appointed foreign secretary.After all the efforts to maintain a sense of control, consistency and message that Britain would now move towards Brexit in an orderly manner, that appointment strikes a wildly unexpected note. Foreign officials, analysts and journalists could scarcely believe it. Nor, I’m told, could many in Whitehall.With his shock of unruly blonde hair and idiosyncratic, often politically incorrect utterances, Johnson has long been one of the more col...
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