Johnson family react to Michael Gove’s elimination – ‘Gove won’t tear us apart again’

After Michael Gove turned on his one-time ally Boris Johnson to pursue his own leadership ambitions, the Justice Secretary was accused of treachery and betrayal by BoJo’s many allies. So, the news that Gove has been knocked out of the Tory leadership contest today will no doubt come as some comfort to those in the Johnson camp.

In fact as soon as the news was announced, Boris’s sister Rachel Johnson took to Twitter. In a tweet that suggests she is taking the news A.OK, Johnson said that Gove would at least no longer be able to cause division:

However, Johnson seems to have already got cold feet about her comment. The tweet was deleted just seconds after it first appeared.