To say that Boris Johnson and Michael Gove’s relationship is a complex one would be an understatement. The Vote Leave comrades fell out spectacularly when the former education secretary turned on BoJo during the last Tory leadership campaign – opting to launch his own (doomed) bid for No 10 at the expense of his so-called friend’s.
But there is good news at last for fans of the Boris/Gove psycho drama: it looks like the band are back together. With Gove back in the Cabinet as Defra Secretary, his written statement today reveals that it’s Johnson who he is trusting with withdrawing the UK from the London Fisheries Convention. Today the Foreign Secretary will ‘formally give notice under the Convention’:
Michael Gove (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
As part of the wider process of becoming an independent Coastal State, the UK will be withdrawing from the London Fisheries Convention.
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