The commentators 09-06-14...on Theresa May v Michael Gove
David Cameron, is damaged by an unspoken element in the public feud between Home Secretary Theresa May and Education Secretary Michael Gove. It is that his ministers do not fear him. Gove gets off with an apology to his ‘friend’, Dave. Mrs May escapes censure but her special adviser, Fiona Cunningham, is fired
- Peter Mackay, Daily Mail 
The public message from David Cameron's extraordinary settlement of the dispute between Theresa May and Michael Gove is "team discipline". The line is that both are doing a marvellous job respectively cutting crime and improving educational standards, but that the prime minister needed to ensure that everyone was working together. Egos are duly deflated in the cause of teamwork
- Chris Huhne, Guardian 
A plague on both their houses. Gove and May are playing dirty games and trying to discredit each other. Apparently these manoeuvres are preparatory bids for the Tory leadership. Alibhai Brown doesn’t give a damn about overambitious political schemers. And nor should anyone else. We should, however, all be alarmed and livid that the two are fouling up public understanding and failing as senior government ministers
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent 
Gove is the politest of men but his intellectual self-confidence and curiosity explain why he will cross dangerous motorways as well as country roads to begin an argument. This explains not only his testy relations with some colleagues, but also his unpopularity with teachers and parents. Although he deserves to be remembered as a great education secretary he has fought on too many fronts
- Tim Montgomerie, The Times 
Ms May may feel that her sanction was harsher than Mr Gove’s but that should not surprise her. Both ministers erred but the retaliation was more brazen than the provocation. That it involved a late night tweet on the Home Office feed only added a sense of farce to something very serious
- Janan Ganesh, Financial Times |
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