Did he ever exhale? Michael Gove admits smoking weed as ‘Gove 2.0’ rolls up – reactions

Michael Gove has admitted taking even more drugs, now it is smoking weed.

He has already admitted he took cocaine: “I took drugs on several occasions at social events more than 20 years ago,” he told the Daily Mail. “At the time I was a young journalist. It was a mistake. I look back and I think, I wish I hadn’t done that.”

During his time at Oxford University he was also a naughty boy.

Mr Gove told a Times Radio podcast: “Yes, I did”, saying they were a “feature of the student experience for a lot of people”.

Gove said: “Without wanting to get too much into the policy of it, I think that the type of cannabis, marijuana that is available now will often have a far higher THC content a far higher capacity to cause harm.”

2.0

Now in an opinion piece in the i by Eliot Wilson claims the new and improved Michael Gove 2.0 will emerge victorious, he writes: “Nevertheless, when the dust settles, I think he will be seen as one of the most important figures of the Conservative period in government.”

Reactions

1.

This is far too kind and light hearted. I would say Michael Gove has been and continues to be the most two faced, back stabbing, dangerous, power hungry, alt right ideologue in the Tory Party. He thinks his oily persona is charming. I think he’s vile. https://t.co/E5s8x97gCV

— MimiJ (@MimiJ9) June 23, 2023

2.

Victorious in the sense of most incompetent and mendacious or having done the most damage to our country? https://t.co/cAN1XvBlFq

— Phil Masters 🇪🇺#FBPE #FBPA #FBNHS #BLM #3.5% (@cheese58chat) June 23, 2023

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Sorry @EliotWilson2 but we couldn’t be further apart on this.

For me @michaelgove is the most overrated @Conservatives. His reforms are lacklustre at best and don’t get me started on housing and planning

I’ll never understand why he is rated so highlyhttps://t.co/tzUehZFXF2

— Peter C. Barnes (@Barnesy19) June 23, 2023

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Slimy doesn't do him justice…. He is the slimiest of an ultra slimy tory party https://t.co/3zCRXyFKHw

— Norman Phipps (@Boyborgie) June 24, 2023

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Harsh or fair?

Gove and cockroaches will survive… https://t.co/aAX3WLZcri

— P J B (@paulbest2) June 23, 2023

Incinerator plan

A plan to build a waste incinerator in a County Durham town has been refused by the secretary of state.

The proposed facility at Hownsgill Industrial Park in Consett had faced an appeal following Durham County Council’s refusal.

However, a report published on behalf of Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said the appeal had been dismissed, reports The BBC.

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