Jailed for them.

I remember when Faisal Islam interviewed him on Sky in the run up to the referendum which was followed by a studio audience asking him questions (moderated by Kay Burley). It was a real lions-den format. David Cameron had put the Remain case in the same format a few days before and had been OK. But Gove was brilliant! He outfoxed Islam (who we now know is himself a die-hard Remainer) and eventually won over the audience. He is excellent at arguing a case and thinking on his feet.
He’s less good at assessing risk and wildly overstated models though.

No. We need to give credit here. Of course, giving any other answer would have been ridiculous but that hasn’t stopped everyone else in science, media or politics so far. I’m wracking my brains trying to think of anyone who actually admitted being wrong about COVID restrictions at any point and Gove is the only name coming up. I’m sure there are others, but, who else has not only had the nerve to admit this about something so serious but do it in public, on television? Would you, in his shoes? Be honest.
A good 50% of the reason that everything about COVID is so insane is what appears to be the iron law of public health: you never admit error, ever. Public health is one long march in a straight line towards a brighter tomorrow. Everyone is competent, everyone is honest, and today’s advice is always correct even if it’s the opposite of yesterday’s or tomorrow’s or even today’s from someone else.
This kind of admission is ultimately the only way out of the madness for our society, as replacing the entire political class isn’t going to happen anytime soon. For one, not many people are willing to volunteer for a job where you sometimes have to eat crow on live TV for merely advising your boss to do something he didn’t then do!
Don’t get me wrong – I have nothing but contempt for what governments, politicians and the media have done. I couldn’t see my family this Christmas largely because people like Gove, Johnson and the other clowns in Cabinet are still letting SAGE terrorize the British public instead of doing what they should have done 18 months ago and fire them (ideally, into the sun). BUT the route out of the darkness is made of steps like these. I will not condemn Gove for taking such a step.

In what way is he sucking up to Mr Sunak? I’m not saying whether he is right or not, but just saying, that in hindsight you think someone may have been right doesn’t mean you’re sucking up to that person.

haha, right, he should ‘Fall on his sword’ like some Roman General in defeat. More like retire and become Vice President for ‘Facebook, UK’ at four hundred thousand a year – like all the worst of the politicos do – I mean they owe it to him, he did as they told him to do all these years.