Michael Gove: How my childhood, and adoption, shaped me as a politician

Michael Gove still remembers vividly the moment his mother told him he was adopted. “She explained that, unlike other children, I hadn’t been born to them. She had a phrase, which I always carry with me - ‘You didn’t grow under my heart; you grew in it,’ ” he tells us.
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[@user-hz1iw4ny3u]

Omfg. More than an hour of Michael Gove in a white shirt mother Hubbard are you serious. With stripes on it. He's more beautiful than life. More beautiful than life itself. Holy hickaday.

[@westminsterwatcher5152]

Top bloke! I actually like the man!

[@pauldoherty2487]

Next job: Minister for re-entering the EU?

[@ellemarr7234]

So I’m supposed to see his humanity even though he lacks the same ability … 🧐

[@mickeythompson9537]

Exactly.

[@NAGZE]

And a H addict at uni dont forget , and still hes got to be a politician. JUST FACTS HERE......

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

Micheal Gove’s bookshelf, he knows,

[@Bob_too]

It’s nice that Michel Gove proves himself too himself, but please don’t feel you should prove yourself to the country, you absolutely don’t. Please rest now 😂

[@mickeythompson9537]

Gove is the kind of person only a mother could love... and even she got rid of him.

[@ajsctech8249]

😂

[@thephoenix3155]

Who is the woman with the long hair interviewing him?

[@peachyllama722]

The B.S spouting out like pob again

[@vincenthigginbotham8729]

Politics the last refuge of a rogue

[@Kokoda144]

Politicians are grubs

[@gavinsmith9564]

He certainly proved Brexit was a disastrous idea, and that we all have to suffer the consequences for the rest of our lives.

[@user-hz1iw4ny3u]

34:11 - Master, or...?

[@bossadave]

Cry me a river

[@almac8524]

You were quick to watch the whole thing Dave!

[@bossadave]

@@almac8524 enough with the experts….

[@user-hz1iw4ny3u]

Mickity Gickity Gookity Govity makes my thing cry a river ngl