Michael Gove, the newly installed editor of the notionally conservative Spectator magazine, has endorsed Kamala Harris for President, citing issues with former President Donald J. Trump’s “character.”
“I would follow Dick Cheney’s advice, and I would vote for Kamala Harris,” said the former Conservative Party politician, who served in multiple senior Cabinet positions under multiple prime ministers before exiting Parliament earlier this year.
Gove, who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016, told the BBC that Harris has “significant weaknesses” and praised Trump’s foreign policy successes on the Abraham Accords and the lack of wars under his leadership. However, he quoted an American friend who said, “I’m bringing up my son, I want him to tell the truth, respect women, and be proud of America’s traditions, and I want him to be humble and respectful… If Donald Trump is President, then how can I say to him that the most important man in the country, the most important man in this world, is operating in defiance of all those virtues, and expect him to believe that our democratic system is working?”
Gove’s invocation of Dick Cheney in his endorsement of Harris speaks to his neoconservative credentials. He wrote an article titled ‘I can’t fight my feelings any more: I love Tony’ in 2003, praising then-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair for his own role in starting that disastrous conflict. He also flew into a rage in Parliament when lawmakers voted down a proposal to go to war with Bashar al-Assad in Syria in 2013.
Sir Paul Marshall, a former Liberal Democrat and investor in GB News, recently took over The Spectator. Despite its conservative credentials, the magazine often pushed globalist and left-wing positions under now-former chairman Andrew Neil, who described its ideology as pro-mass migration and pro-amnesty for illegals.
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