Well, Michael Gove’s wife, Sarah Vine, has made her views clear: tweeting that the reshuffle was ‘a shabby day’s work which Cameron will live to regret’. Crikey. Talk about ‘stand by your man’:
A shabby day’s work which Cameron will live to regret http://t.co/M9SN100PE1 via @MailOnline
— Sarah Vine (@SarahVine) July 16, 2014
Should Vine be turning her ire on Lynton Crosby? It was Crosby, so the story goes, who forced Gove out after concluding that his polling numbers were irredeemable. The move has created the greatest conundrum of the generally pretty perplexing reshuffle. If the new Chief Whip polls so terribly, why has he been asked to prosecute the election air war?
Gove has taken to his new role with characteristic relish: wrapping his interviewer, Huw Edwards, around his little finger and hinting at his plans for an expanded media role.
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