Whoops! Cripes! The government is in another mess. The cry goes out: send for Gove. Like the elegant Jeeves to Boris’s Bertie Wooster, he answers his master’s desperate call, ready to extricate him from another self-inflicted mess. Now the PM’s latest troubles are not aunts but Ukrainians and the many thousands now fleeing their country.
The Home Office are predictably ineffective so it’s once more unto the breach for the oleaginous Aberdonian, the man with more jobs than George Osborne. Levelling up, saving the Union, intergovernmental relations and now processing refugees: is there anything the Gover can’t do? In his interview this morning with Sophy Ridge, the over-worked minister explained how he intends to dig Boris out of another hole by creating a new asylum scheme to process ‘tens of thousands’ of refugees.
But Steerpike was most intrigued to hear the following exchange about whether Gove himself will be taking a Ukrainian refugee into his home:
Ridge: So the idea is that you register an interest from tomorrow, Monday.
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