Former cabinet minister says he does not expect to return to frontbench politics as he backs underdog in race to be PM
Michael Gove has thrown his support behind Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership contest, warning that Liz Truss’s refusal to offer more support over rising energy bills and to just focus on tax cuts marked a “holiday from reality”.
Arguing that millions of people and huge numbers of businesses could be financially crippled by high energy costs, Gove wrote that it was vital the new government had a coherent economic plan.
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