ELECTION DIARY

YOUR FUTURE IS NOT RAP, GOVE

MICHAEL Gove has been mocked for trying, and failing pathetically, to take on a rapper.

Stormzy, above, who won Best Solo Artist at last year’s Brits, announced his support for Labour and urged his 2.6million Instagram followers to register to vote before the midnight deadline.

Gove responded by dismissing Stormzy as a “far, far better rapper than he is a political analyst”.

Labour’s shadow education secretary Angela Rayner tweeted that Gove is “c**p at both” rapping and politics.

Gove then tweeted: “I set trends dem man copy.”

The lyric is from Stormzy’s hit Shut Up, a song title many on Twitter used to respond to Gove’s excruciating post.

JOHNSON LEFT MISTY-EYED

BORIS Johnson’s aides were quick to put a gloss on his closed-doors trip to Scotland.

Glancing at fog obscuring the Forth bridges, one said: “It’s still clearer than Jeremy Corbyn’s policy on Brexit.”

TORY CANDIDATE NEEDS COMPASS

AT THE Scottish Tories’ launch, Moira Benny said she’s the candidate for “Dunfermline and Fife North ... I mean West”. In her defence, it was quite foggy.

CARLAW CLUTCH AT TELLY STRAW

SCOTS Tory leader Jackson Carlaw claimed the entire Tory manifesto launch was immediately cancelled in favour of a re-run of Nicola Sturgeon’s responses to broadcaster Andrew Neil.

“She’s our greatest asset,” one Tory said.

As Sturgeon herself might say ... Aye, right.

THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL

BREXIT bulldog David Davis called foul on a vital number missing from a leaflet issued by his Lib Dem opponents in Haltemprice and Howden.

He said: “Just to be clear, the General Election is on Thursday December 12, NOT December 2.”

Ouch, that takes “vote early” to a new level.