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Don’t write off Michael Gove

20 August 2022

7:00 PM

20 August 2022

7:00 PM

No senior politician has ever possessed a talent for upsetting prime ministers to match that of Michael Gove’s.

David Cameron unfriended him after the EU referendum, having believed Gove had assured him he would campaign for Remain only to see him mastermind the triumphant Leave operation. While Boris Johnson was forgiven for his front-of-house Brexit role, Gove was forever damned.

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