Incoming PM Theresa May has chosen the outspoken pro-Brexit former mayor of London Boris Johnson as foreign secretary.  This article in the WSJ by Gabriele Steinhauser, Michael Wright, and William Horobin notes that Mr. Johnson had some undiplomatic things to say about certain continental European leaders during the campaign.

The primary relevance of the Brexit controversy to this blog is the propensity of the EU to meddle in domestic criminal law policies of nations, primarily its members but also nonmembers including the United States.

The outcome I would like to see is a "two-tier" Europe where Britain and other countries that are fed up with the Eurocrats can belong to something like the old European Economic Community (commonly known as the Common Market) that preceded the EU.  That would be a purely free-trade organization that would keep its mitts off domestic policy, including especially issues of crime and punishment.

I hope the appointment of Boris Johnson is a step in that direction.