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Coffee Shots: Boris vs Dave

The week the Prime Minister and the Mayor of London have been at loggerheads over the EU. After Boris Johnson declared his support for Brexit, David Cameron launched a thinly veiled attack on him in the Commons. So, can expect to see a ‘posh bloke’ fight before the referendum takes place?

Swann, the former international cricketer, asks if Johnson and Cameron will recreate the fight between the two posh public school boys in Bridget Jones’s Diary when Daniel Cleaver — played by Hugh Grant — and Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy take things outside. In case they don’t, Mr S has visualised how it might look, as above.

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