Is Michael Gove the right calibre to be PM?

INTERVIEWED after the referendum, Boris Johnson was already backtracking. With him in charge, it wouldn’t have been worth having a vote. It was brave of Michael Gove to try to stop him, knowing he would face vitriol for doing so. Mr Johnson wasn’t really committed to leaving the EU, just as Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t really committed to remaining.

PATRICIA MORGAN, Deal, Kent.

HAVing won the vote, Johnson said there was no rush to implement Article 50, breaking away from the eU. Perhaps he had suddenly realised the enormity of the task in front of him. gove recognised this. He would make a much better leader.

PAT JONES, Dudley, West Mids.

MICHAEL GOVE has more integrity in his little finger than the majority of MPs have in their whole bodies. His stance wasn’t for advancement; the opprobrium he has suffered is a disgraceful. He should take heart and realise most voters stand by him.

Mrs E. FRANKLAND, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancs.

WHAT a two-faced, treacherous person gove has proved to be. We know — and he knows — he will never be PM. in a few weeks or months, i can see him promoting himself as a Conservative hero who ‘sacrificed himself for the greater good of the Conservative Party’. But it won’t wash with true Tories. gove has failed because he’s unworthy of such high office. Johnson is and will always be ten times the man gove is.

JACK HOBSON, Kemsing, Kent.

I COMMEND Gove for being sufficiently brave to stand for Queen and country. I’m sure he secretly believes Theresa May will succeed. She isn’t a Mrs Thatcher, but seems sufficiently astute to pick out the salient points and not get bogged down in trivia. If she becomes PM, I hope she throws out those leopard skin shoes, they’re well past their sell-by date.

RITA HIBBITT, Chester. i HoPe the Tories don’t try to negotiate with the eU for a ‘better deal’ then propose Referendum2. Underestimate the will of the electorate at your peril. UK politics has never faced such a grave period of distrust.

KAREN LEE, Lancs. THE ‘fallout’ between Johnson and Gove is a red herring. It’s something they could have decided between themselves for the good of the country and the Conservative Party.

Mrs LISA BILLETT, Fishguard, Pembs.