Boris Johnson sacks ‘snake’ Gove as an hour becomes a long time in politics – 23+ reactions

10.

Once you see the Cabinet telling him it’s time to go is essentially an intervention, then him firing Gove makes sense.

39 of your friend have walked because you’re being a dickhead and one of your pals tells you you have a problem you 💯 go “you can fuck off n’all”

— Bethany Black twitch.tv/beffernieblack (@BeffernieBlack) July 6, 2022

11.

8 yard loss on the play, going to be tough to work from 3rd and 17 https://t.co/dAwHvlY3qa

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) July 6, 2022

12.

Imagine – you literally don't have enough support to fill your cabinet, but you still spare a space to sack Micheal Gove.
10/10 for style….

— Malcolm V Tucker 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 (@Tucker5law) July 6, 2022

13.

Just hearing Gove has been sacked…. Just going to get some more popcorn…Hold my beer!!!

— Steve Bray Activist Against Brexit +Corrupt Tories (@snb19692) July 6, 2022

14.

Do you know how funny it is that on a day of nearly 40 resignations, Michael Gove was still fired by Boris Johnson?

— tobí rachel (@TobiRachel_) July 6, 2022

15.

also, this is what he did when MPs started taking a stand against him proroguing parliament. He has form for this shit https://t.co/gpBO2GA1tB

— Kate Bevan 🇺🇦 (@katebevan) July 6, 2022

16.

An embarrassing way to go during the Great Resignation https://t.co/Gch8RKYxNB

— Adam Taylor (@mradamtaylor) July 6, 2022

17.

I love it when many people shoot at me and then I say "haha! two can play that game!" and I voluntarily shoot myself https://t.co/S9PJJqrJOa

— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) July 6, 2022

18.

Note to everyone in Cabinet who has sort-of-threatened to resign but not actually done it; this is now your choice https://t.co/xnElbykcRY

— gabyhinsliff (@gabyhinsliff) July 6, 2022

19.

Boris Johnson sacking Gove is hilarious.

This is all so Trumpian.

— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) July 6, 2022

20.

we now go live to the Love Island villa https://t.co/pn4jfWWnOI

— Alan White (@aljwhite) July 6, 2022

21.

Michael Gove can go clubbing tonight knowing he doesn’t have work in the morning.

— Gary Burton (@TheOfficialGRB) July 6, 2022

22.

Gove, Going, Gone https://t.co/ic9MUx1D2L

— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) July 6, 2022

23.

Is it wrong to be hugely looking forward to Michael Gove’s resignation statement in the Commons?

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 6, 2022

The shock sacking begged a question.

If Johnson’s going to sack #Gove for telling him to go, what about Patel, Shapps and his new Chancellor, Zahawi?? No fan of Gove, but this is a petulant and vengeful act of a truly deluded PM heaping more weakness onto his own administration as it disintegrates #go

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) July 6, 2022

The PM who has gone beyond the scope of the word ‘beleaguered’ may be forced to do something even more drastic.

NEW: Boris Johnson announces new cabinet pic.twitter.com/JLGpEbIMrZ

— The Droyver (@TheDroyver) July 6, 2022

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