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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
David Clark

Michael Gove quits frontline politics a month after being sacked for 'disloyalty'

Michael Gove says he is standing down from frontline politics as he backed Rishi Sunak to become prime minister.

The former education secretary backed Mr Sunak to succeed Boris Johnson in a piece for The Times.

Mr Gove was sacked as levelling up secretary last month by the outgoing prime minister for disloyalty, with a Number 10 source branding him a "snake".

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