It was Michael Gove’s turn in the Sky hot-seat tonight and he came determined to make the democratic case for Brexit. In the initial exchanges, Faisal Islam went after Gove hard on the question of how many economists, international institutions and countries back Britain leaving the EU. Islam pushed Gove to name 11 economists who back Brexit, Gove declined to do so. Islam then asked Gove why the British public should trust him, to which Gove replied that he was asking the British public to trust themselves.
But the bigger challenge for Gove was always going to be dealing with the audience questions, which he is far less used to doing than David Cameron. Gove, though, handled them well, repeatedly going back to the democratic argument for leaving: that Britain would be better off ‘taking control’ of its own affairs.
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