It’s been quite the few months for Michael Gove. The Tory party’s answer to Angela Rayner yesterday bagged himself another new title: Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government with added cross-government responsibility for levelling up and retaining ministerial responsibility for the Union and elections.
This comes after a summer where he announced his forthcoming divorce with longtime wife Sarah Vine and was spotted raving in an Aberdonian nightclub at 2 a.m. All this alongside a busy schedule of Whitehall commitments and evening receptions, where Gove is fond of making a joke or two.
But now it seems the Great Poo-bah of the Whitehall jungle doesn’t just get to dish it out; he has to take it too. For last night at his own belated summer bash, Labour mayor Sadiq Khan enjoyed poking fun at the teaching unions’ bête noire.
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