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John Crace

Digested week: Remorseless Reeves and Sarah Vine’s masterpiece of self-delusion

Sarah Vine and Michael Gove
Sarah Vine and Michael Gove in 2016. Her relationship with her now ex-husband is addressed in How Not to Be a Political Wife. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Monday

One of the biggest mysteries in Westminster surrounds the inability of politicians of all parties to apologise. For anything. Most of the rest of us go through life saying sorry on a regular basis. For being late, for not doing something we had said we would, for forgetting. And by and large an apology does the trick. The person we have let down feels heard and all is forgiven.

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