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Sunak was unaware of Gove attendance at Brexit discussion, No 10 says

Spokesperson stops short of criticising minister, while Tory source dismisses David Frost ‘plot’ claim as ‘pathetic’

Rishi Sunak was unaware of Michael Gove’s attendance at a private meeting of prominent former leave and remain campaigners to discuss Brexit, No 10 has said.

Sunak’s spokesperson suggested the prime minister had first become aware of Gove’s attendance at the two-day summit when he read about it in the Observer.

Government sources said there was some irritation that there was no warning about Gove’s attendance, because of the delicate party management involved during talks on the Northern Irish protocol. One said there were “eyebrows raised” in No 10, but said it was unlikely Sunak would raise it personally with the cabinet minister.

One senior Conservative party source who attended the summit dismissed Frost’s portrayal of the conference as a “secret plot” to “unravel” Brexit as “rather pathetic”.

“It is an overreach and a misunderstanding of what the conference was about, which was about the future of UK and EU relations, which is a perfectly sensible subject to discuss,” the attender said.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...t-unravel-deal