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I saw Gove speak at an event a few months ago. He spoke well, and on the face of it appeared convincing. Fortunately the audience was able to see through him, and was evidently appropriately contemptuous of Gove and his arguments. But his ability to influence opinion is dangerous, albeit not quite on the same scale as Johnson.
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Bizarrely, everything you hear about Gove, as an individual, is that he's a great guy - really popular, friendly, courteous, human, clubbable. To the public, he just comes across as clubbable, but in the other way