Five things we learned when Michael Gove appeared before the Brexit select committee

Erasmus is a maybe. Experts are still out of fashion. And Michael Gove can’t pour water.

On a relentless day in Westminster, Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister in charge of EU trade negotiations, squeezed in a brief appearance before the Committee on the Future Relationship with the EU. Here’s what we learned

Hilary Benn, the Labour MP for Leeds Central and the chair of the select committee, began his questioning by trying to get Gove to provide more regular updates on the state of the EU negotiations.