Remembrance Sunday traditionally brings with it a pause in political hostilities but not for Nadine Dorries. The former Culture Secretary was out on Laura Kuenssberg’s show this morning, three days on from the release of her long-awaited book on the supposed ‘plot’ to bring down Boris Johnson in which Michael Gove is cast as one of the central villains. And following the bizarre scenes yesterday in which Gove was mobbed by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, Dorries showed little sympathy with her onetime cabinet colleague:
ND: “But the point on Michael Gove in that, I’ve got to raise it, what was Michael Gove doing in the middle of Victoria Station on a day when every other sensible politician would not want to make the police’s job any harder and would keep away. I mean was he drunk? What was he doing there?”
LK: “Are you suggesting he was drunk?”
ND: “Well no, to coin a phrase.
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