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Electioncast: Stormzy vs MC Gove

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BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis attacks Labour’s record on anti-Semitism, we take the political temperature in the South West…. and Michael Gove (sort of) tries his hand at rap. Producers: Harriet Noble, Frankie Tobi and Cristina Criddle Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcast.

0:04.2

Here's what happened.

0:05.7

Storm Z, who is a Jeremy Corbyn supporter,

0:08.5

criticized Boris Johnson.

0:10.8

Michael Gove said that Storm Z was a better rapper

0:13.6

than he was a political analyst,

0:15.5

to which Labour's Angela Reiner said Michael Gove

0:18.6

is crap at both, to which Michael Gove replied

0:21.8

with the Storm Z lyric,

0:23.5

I set trends, demand copy,

0:26.6

and then the entire internet took over.

0:28.8

But it got us thinking,

0:30.2

is Michael Gove really that bad a rapper?

0:33.4

Here is Grime artist Razor from Hackney,

0:36.3

emceeing some of the Govesters' best quotes.

0:45.2

Yeah, I think the people at this country

0:48.2

have had enough of experts from organizations

0:50.8

with acronym saying that they know what is best

0:53.2

and get a consistently wrong.

0:56.1

Life would have been easier for me

0:58.1

if I had taken a path of least resistance.

1:00.1

Therefore, I think the reason people can always trust me

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