Gove On Marr This Morning.....

[ToraToraTora]

I wasn't pleased about the Boris saga but he explained himself well, despite Marr doing his usual Noo Labour luvvie sniping. I'm starting to think I may transfer my support to him. Anyone else see the interview? Can someone train Marr on how to do political interviewing what a disaster he is.

[jno]

transferring your support to a part-time leaver? This would be an odd time to do that.

[Svejk]

Yes, he withstood the interrogation/character assassination well despite struggling to get a word in sideways and having a camera shoved up his nose.

[Old_Geezer]

It was on and I was half watching whilst multitasking. He reiterated much of what he's already said. Didn't think Boris was getting on with putting the team together and preparing for the job; put principles and county before friendship; etc.. Much what you'd expect him to say. He speaks well. I didn't think he answered the question regarding his claiming he wasn't up to the PM job sometime in the past. But he's one of few remaining leave believers left in the contest who might have the enthusiasm to perform the withdrawal negotiations properly rather than cave in and accept EU sans what little say a nation gets.

[Gromit]

// [Gove] explained himself well //

We must have been watching a different programme. The charge of stabbing his friends/rivals was not at all rebuffed. He said he had known Boris for 30 years, but only realised he wasn't Prime Minister material, the night before the deadline. Do you really buy that?

[jno]

apologies, I misread the OP as saying you were transferring your support (back) to Boris.

Gove has always said he didn't want the job. I still think he doesn't want it. He just didn't want Cameron or Boris to have it either so he sabotaged both their careers. This is a public service but still not reason to have him as a PM.

[Gromit]

Just been reading Gove's biog, and this made me chuckle...

// he worked on the Channel 4 monologue programme A Stab in the Dark... //

[Goofy]

It's not the back-stabbing that worries me. It's not having the guts to tell Boris personally and leaving it to the press.
And I agree - only discovering now that Boris unsuitable? I joined the tories so I could vote against him (a waste of £25 I now discover!).

[Gromit]

Gove acted despicably, but I don't think you can blame him entirely for Boris bottling it.
- Boris didn't need Gove he could have stood without him.
- Boris would have beaten Gove to get on the vote slip.

[lindapalmara]

I'm not surprised. Boris spent the first day playing golf and the second having a BBQ after cancelling a meeting with people who were going to discuss strategy, wrote an article n the telegraph where he backtracked, forgot to send a letter to Angela Leadson and hadn't written his nomination speech half an our before he was due to announce it. No on dear Gove was angry!!

[Gromit]

// Johnson went to another social gathering, in Westminster, where he was expected to give that written job guarantee to Andrea Leadsom.
However, he had apparently left the letter in his Commons office.
Compounding this broken promise, the deadline passed when Boris said he would make public his pledge to Leadsom.
Understandably, Leadsom felt ‘snubbed’ and decided she was being ‘strung along’.
In a fit of pique, she then lodged her own nomination papers for the Tory leadership. //

Utter shambles.

[Jackdaw33]

I think May is unstoppable now.

[Gromit]

Andrea Leadsom Has a few skeletons.
Tax avoidance, offshore trust in Guernsey, oil industry conflict of interest. No doubt all will be revealed if she goes head to head with May.

[Jackdaw33]

I don't think she will make the last two. May and Gove is my bet.

[jno]

so will Farron and Farage be the last male party leaders left standing? They sound like a musical hall act.

[Zacs-Master]

......And have the same political acumen as one.

[Svejk]

^Hark at the Chuckle Brothers.

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect May will be in the final two. I've no idea if she has the favour of the rank & file members though. Certainly any 'leave' supporters should think seriously about the potential pitfalls of having a 'remain' supporter as party leader at this vital time.

[Hopkirk]

She has been quite Eurosceptic over the years, which gives some hope.

[Jackdaw33]

May was never wholeheartedly Remain. She just thought it prudent not to directly oppose Cameron.

[Hopkirk]

Give her the job, and then we can get on with it.

How about a Merkel / May wrestling match?