Never forget Michael Gove’s co-interview with Donald Trump. Never forget the fawning questions, the implicit collusion as Trump – days before his inauguration – called the Steele dossier that detailed allegations of Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election “fake news“. Never forget that the toughest question Gove threw at Trump was: “Is there anything else you take from having a Scottish mother?”
For the Conservative right it was love at first sight, though there were rival suitors. Gove went to Trump Tower with Rupert Murdoch, on behalf of the hard Brexit faction of the Tory party. He assured Trump that “the PM wants to get a strong [trade] deal with the US” – to which Trump responded: “Well, how is our Nigel doing? I like him, I think he’s a great guy, I think he’s a very good guy and he was very supportive.”
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