The Chief Whip was in punchy form with a bad-tempered Eddie Mair on PM:

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EM: “Will you resign as Chief Whip is there’s another defection before the general election?”

MG: “Well, I’m convinced that nobody will, so the matter doesn’t arise.”

EM: “But you won’t put your job on the line? You’re not that certain?”

MG: “Well, I’m certain that we need a Conservative majority at the next election and I’m going to do everything possible to ensure that we get that.”

EM: “Is that the kind of answer that puts people off politics?”

MG: “Sorry?”

EM: “Is that the kind of answer that puts listeners off politics?”

MG: “In what way?”

EM: “It’s not a direct answer to the question.”

MG: “Yes, but your question was, if I may say so, the type of political game-playing that puts people off BBC interviewers.”

Gove went on to say Theresa May would not be as successful a Tory leader as David Cameron. Pow!