Oh dear. It’s been a testing day for Her Majesty’s government after Theresa May decided to postpone the vote on her Brexit deal in order to avoid a humiliating defeat. The problem is no-one bothered to tell May’s so-called inner circle and just hours before the vote was pulled Michael Gove was sent on the Today programme to explain that the vote was going ahead.
Could the communications meltdown prove the trigger to ministers turning on May? Mr S only asks after Michael Gove’s wife Sarah Vine – the Daily Mail columnist – appeared to suggest on social media that she was running out of patience with the Prime Minister. In response to a hack suggesting May’s endurance wasn’t admirable but instead the signs of a politician desperately clinging onto power for no reason, Vine said she worried they were right:
See also… 🔥 pic.twitter.com/fqSquRwov9
— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) December 10, 2018
Mr S suspects it would have been wise idea to give the Gove/Vine household a heads up this morning…
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