Michael Gove has announced he is quitting frontline politics while formally endorsing RIshi Sunak to be the next prime minister.
The former cabinet minister took one last dig at his old rival Boris Johnson as he vowed the ex-chancellor will ‘put the strength of the state at the service of the weakest’ and get millions of people the help they need during the cost-of-living crisis.
In a piece for the Times, he also branded long-standing Boris ally Liz Truss‘s campaign as a ‘holiday from reality’.
He also said her tax cuts will put ‘the stock options of FTSE 100 executives’ before the poorest.
It comes after it was claimed that Mr Gove would be outcast to ‘political Siberia’ if Ms Truss wins the Conservative leadership battle.
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