Michael White's diary: Match of the day? Wembley's all set for a Michael Gove-Jeremy Browne love-in

The sacked Lib Dem and the Tory education chief are off to the Championship playoff final to support QPR. Will they end up off their trolley?

Tension is usually high between Tory and Lib Dem ministers nowadays wherever knife crime, academies or free school meals are found on a coalition agenda and backstairs Tory apparatchik Dominic Cummings can find space to throw a punch. It is always high when a lucrative place in football's Premier League is at stake. So Saturday's Championship playoff final between QPR and Derby is hardly the place for a Lib Dem-Tory love-in. Or is it? Despite tensions between Michael Gove and David Laws, his fastidious Lib Dem deputy at education, Gove is going to the match with a fellow QPR supporter. Step forward sacked Lib Dem minister Jeremy Browne, whose recent book compared his party to a wonky supermarket trolley that pulls to the left unless firmly controlled. He and Govey both pull to the right.

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