Duel be sorry, Boris

BRITAIN could be a very different place this time next year. Or much the same as now.

It depends on whether we vote for Brexit big time on June 23.

Let’s say we do. David Cameron would quit on June 24. And by May 2017 Michael Gove has been our PM for eight months.

He defeated Boris Johnson in a leadership contest the previous October after Tories came to realise Boris really is Britain’s Donald Chump.

That made Mike’s wife, the journalist Sarah Vine, Britain’s formidable First Lady, but on the plus side it meant she had to give up writing.

Having achieved his life’s work, Nigel Farage retired as Ukip leader to spend more time in the pub.

Just as he did after the 2015 General Election

After three pints he changed his mind and became UKIP leader again.

Just as he did after the 2015 General Election.

But he changed Ukip’s name to Usip to better reflect his drinking habits. It now stands for the Unapologetic Stop Immigration Party.

No one hears much about George Osborne any more. He has faded into the Osborne & Little wallpaper. But Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader by 100 per cent of Labour members – and 99 per cent of Labour MPs are looking for seats where they can stand as independents.

This referendum is doing the opposite of what David Cameron intended. It’s becoming a verdict on his premiership and who should replace him – a “Tory psychodrama” he calls it.

But then it was psychotic of Cameron to claim leaving the EU could lead to World War Three, or Johnson’s nonsense that staying in is what Adolf

Hitler would have wanted. It’s making voters wonder whether Cameron deserves to be our present PM, or Boris our future one.

That’s why they are both losing public trust quicker than Nigel Farage can down a pint.

The decision we have make is so much greater than the ambitions of a couple of Eton playground rivals. But they seem too blind to see it. That’s because Cameron and Johnson each have an ego so big it covers their eyes.