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Sarah Vine reveals her Christmas wish: separate bedrooms

Buying a present for a loved one at Christmas can be a difficult and time-consuming task, so luckily Sarah Vine has made her husband Michael Gove’s job easy thanks to her column in today’s Daily Mail.

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In a piece entitled ‘Sorry chaps but women love sleep FAR more than sex!’, Vine — who says that there are ‘vast chunks of a woman’s life when surrendering to the pillow and duvet is infinitely more enticing a prospect’ than sex — argues that men should refrain from purchasing sexy lingerie for their partners in favour of comfortable pyjamas:

‘She’ll get a good night’s sleep in their cocooning embrace (especially if you disappear to the spare room) and then . . . well, who knows?’

But perhaps Gove ought to go one step further and splash out on a new bed for his charming wife — given that she longs not to share a bed with the Justice Secretary:

‘We all persist, of course.

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