Politics

"They aren't good at listening and not that really interested in other people's opinions."

"It's the future of this nation, and it's relying on semantics."

A mobile testing unit - which was supposed to be introduced in response to a local spike in coronavirus cases - was not deployed to the site for an “unknown reason”, a spokesperson said.

Michael Gove also defended £7,000 day rates being paid to private sector consultants who are helping the Government to set up and run its testing system.

In this insightful video, ex-Labour staffer and prominent anti-gambling campaigner Matt Zarb-Cousin sheds a little light on what drives Britain's most controversial politician.

“If carefully negotiated terms are not honoured and laws can be ‘legally’ broken, on what foundations does our democracy stand?"

Also Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, they said the UK Internal Market Bill has “enormous moral, as well as political and legal, consequences”

“It is ajar; we hope the EU will change their position, we’re certainly not saying that if they do change their position we can’t talk to them.”

Asked by Andrew Marr on the BBC this morning whether the extortionate spending was a good use of public money, Gove said: “Yes.”