“There are lots of other folk, including in the Cabinet who could easily be prime minister, I am not one of them. I could not be prime minister, I am not equipped to be prime minister, I don’t want to be prime minister.”

—  Michael Gove

Speaking on The World at One radio programme (2012)
2012

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