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Serial liar Boris Johnson ’s as grave a threat to our democracy as congenital liar Donald Trump is to America’s.

Britain’s Trump mini-me is another Fake News machine, an egotist arrogantly flouting decency and ignoring rules intended to guard against tinpot tyranny.

The haughty Old Etonian picking and choosing TV debates, skipping tonight's Channel 4 hustings, is unfit for Downing Street .

Tories are imposing a new Prime Minister on Britain without a General Election and jumpy Johnson’s nightmare is public scrutiny exposing the £350m a week immoral, incompetent, unpleasant, divisive, idle, fibbing reality behind his self-serving myths.

He was a terrible Foreign Secetary in a rehearsal for No 10, laughing about dead bodies in Libya and cack-handedly extending a British-Iranian mother’s jail sentence in Iran.

Equally his eight-year reign at London Mayor was a complete failure compared with Labour predecessor Ken Livingstone’s innovative terms, the Tory scamster squantering £40m on vanity buses and a £43m luvvie unbuilt garden bridge.

Boris Airport was a pricey fiction and even the “Boris Bikes” network was inherited from Livingstone, “Ken’s Cycles” a more accurate eponymous tribute.

So casual is Johnson’s acquaintance with the truth, assuming immediately that he’s lying saves time.

Trump ladelling praise on the blond bungler alongside Johnson’s chumminess with the US President’s nationalist Right-wing former sidekick, a Steve Bannon who regards racism as a badge of honour, is a terrifying warning.

Because there’s nothing attractive about a Tory frontrunner to be PM who called Black people “picaninnnies” with “watermelon smiles”, mocked vulnerable Muslim women as “bank robbers” and “letter boxes” and claimed the first US Black President, Barak Obama, displayed an “ancestral dislike” of a British Empire that ruled the Kenya of his father.

Johnson’s racism’s matched by homophobia when he dubbed gay men “bumboys”.

The £700,000 he banked personally in recent months is a politician who believes the people serve him, a Daily Telegraph paying £5,500 a pop to spread his progaganda forced to admit he isn’t fact-based.

Shamed into agreeing to appear in a BBC debate on Tuesday, Johnson will doubtless duck and dive.

The Tory who accused Gordon Brown of a “giant fraud” for succeeding Tony Blair with a General Election would lack legitimacy.

Find himself in No 10 and he’ll inevitably betray Brexit. It’s in Johnson’s nature.