Show 360. Michael Gove - LIVE
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Michael Gove - LIVE
One of the most transformational and impactful Cabinet ministers of recent years is on top form as he reminisces about his biggest moments.
What was going through his mind at that press conference the morning after the Brexit referendum?
How did Boris react when he changed his mind about backing him?
How did he end up throwing shapes in an Aberdeen nightclub?
Michael also gives his take on Reform and Nigel Farage. How worried should we be about him becoming Prime Minister?
This is an outrageous and incisive interview with a phenomenal political brain.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. |
| 0:12.0 | Today's guest is Michael Gove and, oh boy, does he deliver. |
| 0:14.9 | We talk about it all his time in government, his relationship with Boris, Dominic Cummings, David Cameron. |
| 0:20.0 | Also, just his take on what's |
| 0:22.1 | happening now. And he's got great advice for anyone. Well, were there ever to be another campaign, |
| 0:29.6 | or indeed a campaign, to rejoin the EU, he has got great advice for the remain or indeed |
| 0:36.2 | the rejoined side. Now obviously that may never happen |
| 0:38.8 | in my lifetime. But I mean, this guy's just got an incredible political brain, as you will know, |
| 0:44.6 | and picking it. You know, you don't just wonder, when you've got a guest like this, |
| 0:47.4 | you obviously want to go through the big moments the morning after the Brexit referendum, |
| 0:53.0 | changing his mind on whether Boris Johnson should be a leader, standing against. |
| 0:57.3 | You know, just all that stuff, the dynamics in him, Cameron Osborne, the changes he implemented at education alongside Dominic Cummings. |
| 1:05.3 | You also want to get his take on what's happening to the Tory party now, what's happening to reform, what's happening to Labour. |
| 1:10.8 | How are you actually, the art of politics? Michael Gove is an expert |
| 1:15.6 | practitioner and he's very, very sort of honest about his own shortcomings as he sees them. |
| 1:23.8 | But this is just, this is a riot. He's great fun from the outset. We talk about so, it's just such a great, wide ranging, varied chat with just such a great political intellectual. Before that, I can now unveil my full lineup for the Edinburgh Festival Political Party recording. So here we go. I might have announced a couple of |
| 1:45.2 | these, but one of these at least will be a surprise. So at the Edinburgh Festival, on the 7th of August, |
| 1:50.6 | I'm interviewing Ian Murray, the Secretary of State for Scotland. On the 13th of August, I'm interviewing |
| 1:55.5 | Joanna Cherry. On the 15th of August, and this is the new one, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, |
| 2:01.8 | live at the McEwan Hall at the Edinburgh Festival. |
| 2:04.5 | It will be amazing talking to him |
| 2:06.1 | because obviously he's been Mayor of London for quite a while now. |
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