Michael Gove is the Justice Secretary, but his speech to the Tory conference this afternoon showed that he is so much more than that – or at least that he’s interested in so much more than just his brief. The most striking thing about it was that it was a challenging speech for those sitting in the hall, rather than one where he repeatedly challenged Labour on the party’s new direction under Jeremy Corbyn.
It wasn’t just that he prompted the conference to applaud his line that it was a Conservative, not a Lib Dem, who ensured equal marriage for gay and lesbian people – which they did, with a very small number of delegates either refusing to clap or shaking their heads. It was that Michael Gove told the Conservative party conference today that ‘there is more we need to do to tackle the excesses and abuses of capitalism: abuses which undermine the system that generates so much growth and opportunity’.
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