Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: It's been more than two years since Britons voted to quit the European Union. But the debate about how to leave is still going on even within the ruling Conservative Party. Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for Brexit has already been rejected by the EU. And this morning, her former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, also attacked it. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BORIS JOHNSON: That is not pragmatic. That is not a compromise. It is dangerous and unstable politically and economically. My fellow Conservatives, this is not democracy. That is not what we voted for. CHANG: Johnson was speaking at the Conservative Party Convention in Birmingham, England. And that is where NPR's Frank Langfitt filed this story. FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: The energy in this meeting isn't really here in the city's International Convention Center, where the party's leaders are speaking upstairs in a symphony hall, but at what are called fringe events
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