Opportunity knocks for Michael Gove – but will he take it? | Simon Jenkins

The keys to No 10 may be the reward if the ‘levelling up’ secretary can deliver on housing and give new hope to the north

The whale is wounded. The sharks smell blood and start to circle. The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is in the lead. The rest thrash about, still disoriented by Covid. That is, except for Michael Gove. Last September, in an unguarded moment, Boris Johnson handed Gove the opportunity of a lifetime: to chart a path out of the ideological chaos of lockdown towards a 21st-century Tory d...