Like Brutus, Gove agonised...but he made his move like a 総理大臣, says historian ANDREW ROBERTS?

He might seem too modest and polite to be a Man of 運命, but that is what Michael Gove now is, and it’s partly 負かす／撃墜する to what he keeps in the large shed at the 底（に届く） of his garden.

Although his friends ? of whom I am proud to call myself one ? love him for his 向こうずねing wit and 速度(を上げる） of repartee, we have also known for １０年間s that he has a moral 核心 of 原則s that are steel-tempered.

When Michael was 大統領 of the Oxford Union, there used to be a tired old joke that got trotted out about the 政治家，政治屋 who says at the end of his speech: ‘Those are my 原則s, and if you don’t like them… I have others.’

The time has come for Michael to enter the history 調書をとる／予約するs himself, as he takes Britain out of the EU after 43 years, 令状s historian Andrew Roberts

Michael could never make that gag, because his political 原則s go to the heart of what he is all about. When he says he will not 妥協 over what the British people 投票（する）d for on June 23, he will not.

The 交渉s that will begin once Article 50 is 誘発する／引き起こすd, probably as soon as the new 総理大臣 has their new team in place, are going to see levels of political 瀬戸際政策 not experienced since the 落ちる of the Berlin 塀で囲む. In the 決定的な and fantastically high-危険 直面する-off between Team UK and ジーンズ-Claude Juncker, we will see who blinks first. The Brussels 交渉者s must be 説得するd that Britain will indeed carry out any 脅しs and any 約束s she makes, and so we cannot be led by someone who …に反対するd Brexit.

特に someone like Theresa May, whom Charles Moore has rightly dubbed ‘contemptible’ because of her Machiavellian 拒絶 to （選挙などの）運動をする wholeheartedly for the 味方する she said she supported, in 事例／患者 it irritated the Tory 投票者s she hoped would make her 総理大臣 in the event Brexit won.

The hard man who Britons can rely on to master his 簡潔な／要約する, （軍隊を）展開する，配備する his charm, but 最終的に show the innate toughness in his soul during the Brexit 交渉s is Michael Gove.

Stanley Johnson said ‘Et tu Brute’ about his son’s political 暗殺, but to continue the analogy その上の, Marcus Brutus 格闘するd with his 義務s and 忠義 to Julius Caesar before deciding that his greater 忠義 was to Rome. If leaders see they’ve made a mistake, they have to move briskly and radically to 修理 the 損失. Gove saw that Boris did not have, as Churchill put it, ‘the stuff of the 事柄 in him’, and 行為／法令／行動するd in a wholly prime 大臣の way in 修正するing the problem. As Harold Macmillan put it, 首相s need to be good butchers.

Gove is up against Theresa May in the 企て，努力，提案 to become Tory leader に引き続いて David Cameron's 辞職

The fact that until now, Gove has genuinely not 手配中の，お尋ね者 the 職業 of 総理大臣 せねばならない commend him all the more. The ambition and self-thrust of 政治家，政治屋s are two of their least attractive traits; they are always looking for an 開始. Michael has never been one of those 政治家，政治屋s, but when he saw that Johnson was willing to water 負かす／撃墜する the かかわり合いs necessary to 配達する what the people 需要・要求するd in the 国民投票, he 行為／法令／行動するd 速く and decisively. It was やめる （疑いを）晴らす from Michael’s wife Sarah Vine’s 漏れるd email that the Johnson （軍の）野営地，陣営 were 保留するing 安心s over 決定的な 面s of how Brexit would develop under a Johnson 首相の職.

And far from 存在 the Lady Macbeth 人物／姿／数字 some in the マスコミ 即時に tried to 召喚する up, Sarah is warm, funny, open, and 情熱的な in her belief in British independence. She will break the mould of prime 大臣の wives at No 10 if the Tory Party is 奮起させるd enough to 投票（する） for Michael in September, and in a wholly 肯定的な way.

When Theresa May 始める，決める out her 立ち往生させる and tried to 土台を崩す the person she thought she was standing against ? Boris Johnson ? she said she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to build a Britain for ordinary people, not ‘the 特権d’ and ‘the few’, an obvious dig at Boris’s background.

PRETTY 基準 class-based stuff, but not a line that 作品 against Michael, who doesn’t know who his 生物学の parents were, as his unmarried mother left him to be 可決する・採択するd as soon as he was born. In Mrs May’s rather un-Tory game of prolier-than-thou, therefore, the vicar’s daughter loses out to Michael, who is as classless as it is possible to be.

その上に, Mrs May’s trumpeting of her 業績／成就 in 国外追放するing Abu Qatada from Britain ignored the fact that she had been Home 長官 for th ree whole years before he finally went. What kept him here for so long was the European 法廷，裁判所 of Human 権利s, which Michael wants Britain to 身を引く from but she doesn’t. Above all, it was during May’s Home Secretaryship that the 約束 to 減ずる 逮捕する 移住 to tens of thousands was made, and 繰り返して broken.

At the 底（に届く） of Michael Gove’s garden is a shed that 含む／封じ込めるs more than 2,000 調書をとる／予約するs, おもに of history and biography. There are a couple of thousand more in his house. His 運動 is not 観念的な but 知識人, not based on dogma but on 深遠な learning.

The time has come for Michael to enter the history 調書をとる／予約するs himself, as he takes Britain out of the EU after 43 years. Then he will be worthy of a biography to equal any of the ones in his shed.

Andrew Roberts is the author of Napoleon The 広大な／多数の／重要な (Penguin).

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