Gove: Presence of ‘elder statesmen’ like Ed Miliband on frontbench points to wisdom of ‘back to work’ budget

In the final day of the debate on the Spring budget, levelling up secretary Michael Gove joked that the presence of himself and Ed Miliband on the frontbench pointed to “the wisdom” of the chancellor’s “back to work” budget.

Mr Gove said: “The fact that both of us are here today demonstrates the wisdom of one of the budget measures, because in the budget, the chancellor of the exchequer made it clear that he wanted to bring back people who’d been dropped from the front line of the workforce back into the front line”.