Tory Remainers hate Brexit because they don't trust themselves to govern

'There is a systems failure in this country and across the West. We are languishing and we are drifting without a purpose." So begins the final scene of Brexit: the Uncivil War, when Vote Leave's campaign director, Dominic Cummings (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), explains what has gone wrong since the referendum. "What do you do when there is a systems failure?" he asks. "You reset. And that's all I did. I reset."

Cummings, Matthew Elliott and a few others were the genuises behind the of...