Re: Michael Gove and Sarah Vine separating and 'finalising divorce'
The real reason for the breakup may be banal:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ine-to-divorce
Sarah Vine, in her newspaper column last week, wrote about how Matt Hancock’s resignation as health secretary after having an affair with his adviser – and breaking Covid rules with someone outside his household or bubble before it was allowed – showed that Westminster life could drive a wedge between partners.
“Westminster is a place of myriad distractions for the politician seeking refuge from his or her home life”.
“The problem with the wife who has known you since way before you were king of the world is that she sees through your facade” and that there were some politicians who could walk away from power and others “who will compromise everything for the sake of it”.
Westminster changes people, Vine said, commenting on how wives of senior politicians “are still more or less the same person they were when they got married” but their husbands sometimes were not.
“Climbing that far up Westminster’s greasy pole changes a person,” she wrote. “And when someone changes, they require something new from a partner. Namely, someone who is as much a courtesan as a companion, one who understands their brilliance and, crucially, is personally invested in it. Not someone who thinks it’s all a monumental nuisance and wishes they would get a proper job that doesn’t involve people poking cameras in your face and commenting on your poor choice of footwear.”
So, distanced from reality, with the prospect of power ever-present, Michael Gove, seemingly, found his way up his own ass .....