Trifling Michael Gove calls Ed Milliabnd a blancmange

 
Michael Gove Pic: Alan Davidson/The Picture Library Ltd
Alan Davidson/The Picture Library Ltd
31 May 2013

In today’s Daily Telegraph Michael Gove calls Ed Miliband “a blancmange in a hurricane”. But is the Education Secretary being a trifle forgetful? Only two weeks ago Gove praised the Labour leader at the LSE as someone who “welcomed genuine intellectual thought rather than arid exercises in positioning” and promised not to attack Labour until six months before the election when “I will grow fangs and hair on the back of my hands”.

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