It helped, perhaps, that Caine himself is an enthusiastic Brexiteer, a multimillionaire who declares that poverty is more noble for other Britons than subjection to the EU’s ‘faceless dictators’: ‘I voted for Brexit. I’d rather be a poor master than a rich servant.’2 As Gove told the Sun: ‘I love Michael Caine. He’s the kind of expert I like.’
