Stop ‘unfair’ attacks on Ed Miliband, urges Tory Gove

Labour high command will be flabbergasted by his honesty: will he now come to Clegg’s defence?

The Mole

Michael Gove, the Tory chief whip and former education secretary, has urged his Tory colleagues to stop the “unfair” personal attacks on Ed Miliband which he believes could backfire with voters.

Gove told listeners to an LBC Radio phone-in that how Miliband munched a bacon sandwich – and his resemblance to Wallace out of Wallace and Gromit - were “irrelevant to his ability to be a good prime minister".

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