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Top Tories flee sinking ship
Michael Gove, March 14, 2024

TOP Tories have abandoned the party’s floundering cause as the stampede towards the exits reached flood proportions this weekend.

Levelling-Up Secretary Michael Gove is among the latest Tory MPs who have announced that he will not fight his Surrey Heath constituency again.

Mr Gove has probably been the most influential neoconservative in British politics since Tony Blair quit to make his millions.

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