Michael Gove on the Radio 4 Today podcast has suggested that Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick is in fact a generic Tory Boy and given the strength of voters feelings on this, it might be an issue. Gove of course has mentored Kemi Badenoch, although he is now Editor of the Spectator. In response Jenrick has accused Gove of fighting a Culture War. Divided they fall…
Now, I think one of Robert’s weaknesses, and I speak as someone who has the same déformation professionnelle, he looks like a typical Tory politician.
When it was put to him that he was accusing Jenrick of being a “Tory boy”, Gove went on:
So am I. It’s a stain that I bear. And given the strength of feeling against Tory boys expressed at the last general election, that’s a challenge.
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