Brexit's Winners and Losers: Johnson Triumphs as Pound Plunges

Today's victory for the Leave campaign in the U.K.'s referendum on European Union membership will roil business, markets and politics. Below is a sampling of some of the winners and losers from the vote.

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove: They were the ubiquitous faces of the Leave effort. The former London mayor and the Justice Secretary will now be heroes to the Conservative Party parliamentarians who are deeply anti-EU, and well positioned now that Prime Minister David Cameron says he will step down as leader. In the leadership race that would follow, "the two-thirds of the party who are Euroskeptics may well go for Boris or Gove," said Jon Davis of King's College London. They made an effective tag team during the Leave campaign, with Johnson's verbose bluster and Gove's more cerebral manner combining to create "a relentless narrative," Davis said. It was also a victory for U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who wasn't part of the official Leave campaign but has pushed for separation for a quarter-century.