but somebody as canny
as michael gove, also,
who has been a journalist for a long
time, knows exactly what impact him
announcing his departure would have
on a friday night after a couple
of very bumpy first
days for rishi sunak.
and what's also significant i think,
is he only made the decision,
as i understand it, in the last
36 hours before the announcement.
in other words, he only made
the decision after the not ideal
launch of the general election.
and that, of course,
makes you wonder, did he take a look
at how this was unfolding and think,
i don't want part of this and that
and that sentence,
i don't want part of this
could apply to theresa may.
andrea leadsom.
kwasi kwarteng.
matt hancock.
sir charles walker,
endless amounts of them,
but government ministers who have
to answer about what it means
for all these people
to leave at the same time,
which is now a larger number
than it was conservatives leaving
in 1997, which of course,
was an augur of what came next.