It seems it’s a day for chatty rats in politics. First, longtime Hunt ally Steve Brine went on Politics Live and inadvertently called the Chancellor a ‘fantastic Prime Minister.’ And now, Michael Gove has told the JLA Speakers Bureau that the country is ‘going through hell’ and that ‘all of us are going to face a hell of a lot of pain in the next two months.’ Gee, tell us what you’re really thinking, eh, Michael?
In remarks reported by the Guardian, Gove told the event’s host Sangita Myska that she was ‘absolutely right’ that it was ‘no longer a question of whether Liz Truss goes but when.’ He added that ‘the question for any leader is: what happens when the programme or the platform on which you secured the leadership has been shredded’ before praising Jeremy Hunt and suggesting that Keir Starmer’s opening question at PMQs to Truss ought to be ‘Why?’ With friends like these…
Gove, who is reportedly lined up to start on Times Radio as a guest host, showed off some of his new jokes too.
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