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FINAL GAMBLE
Michael Gove SACKED by defiant Boris Johnson after PM digs in against Cabinet coup
MICHAEL Gove was SACKED by Boris Johnson last night.
It comes after the Leveling up Secretary was said to have begged the PM to chuck in the towel yesterday.
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Later a Downing Street source told the BBC: “You cannot have a snake who is not with you on any of the big arguments who then gleefully briefs the press that he has called for the leader to go. You cannot operate like that.”
Last night when pressed on Mr Johnson's decision to let Mr Gove go, the PM's Parliamentary aide James Duddridge told SkyNews Mr Gove had been "disloyal" to Boris Johnson in the past.
Mr Johnson dug in against a full-scale Cabinet coup in a final gamble to save his imploding premiership.
The PM is understood to have stared down the Quit Squad of top Ministers who told him to the game was up and he should go.
In an assassination attempt with echoes of Thatcher's removal, Cabinet members saw him individually to demand his resignation.
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He is expected to carry out a reshuffle today as other Cabinet Ministers are expected to desert his battered administration.
He also needs to replace the 46 Tory MPs who today resigned in protest at his leadership, which has spiralled since the Chris Pincher scandal erupted last week.
Mr Johnson has been reeling from the Chris Pincher groping scandal first revealed by The Sun last Thursday.
The crisis climaxed in the past 24 hours when Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid both quit the Cabinet and called for him to go.