Gove returns to the political fray with bombshell interventions to try and sink Truss tax plans

The experienced former Cabinet minister has denounced the idea of ramping up Government borrowing to pay for tax cuts

has broken his silence in spectacular form with a string of bombshell interventions attacking the Government’s tax cuts and threatening to lead a backbench revolt.

He suggested he would vote against the Budget – normally considered a declaration of no confidence in the Government as a whole – if Ms Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng did not perform a U-turn. “It is still the case that there is an inadequate realisation at the top of Government about the scale of change required,” he said.

And at a separate meeting organised by the Onward think-tank, he suggested that the new Prime Minister was at risk of losing the voting coalition put together by Mr Johnson at the last general election. He told activists: “2019 wasn’t just a triumph for Boris, it was about social and economic changes that people in Government need to understand if they’re going to govern the country well.”

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