Matt Hancock is living on 'borrowed time' as Health Secretary following clashes with the three most powerful members of the Government over the Covid crisis, The Mail on Sunday has been told.

Matt Hancock is living on 'borrowed time' as Health Secretary following clashes with the three most powerful members of the Government over the Covid crisis, The Mail on Sunday has been told.

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Michael Gove insisted the Government "should not be thinking of lifting" lockdown restrictions yet as he launched a staunch defence of Boris Johnson's management of the coronavirus crisis.

Some social distancing measures will remain in place until a coronavirus vaccine has been developed, Michael Gove has said.

Cabinet Office minister says Government does not want the UK to continue with its 'European Union-lite membership' beyond December 2020

MICHAEL GOVE: The financial crisis and other failures of leadership from a past generation of political leaders have turned people against distant and unaccountable power-brokers.

Michael Gove gave out the No10 phone number live on radio as he was pushed over whether the PM is running scared of the interview.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron vowed never to speak again to Mr Gove- but the two men buried the hatchet over whisky sodas and red wine at an exclusive private members' club in London.

David Cameron said Boris Johnson and Michael Gove 'left the truth at home' with claims that EU membership cost £350million a week and that Turkey would join the bloc.

Michael Gove famously sabotaged the current UK Prime Minister's first leadership bid in 2016 by launching his own rival campaign, forcing Boris Johnson (pictured together) to pull out.

The Brexit row severed a close friendship between the Gove and Cameron families which extended well beyond politics and saw the two families share the school run and holiday together.

Michael Gove today ramped up the government's preparations for a No Deal Brexit as the chances of an agreement being struck between Britain and the EU appeared to collapse.

Jeremy Corbyn had come to raise an Urgent Question concerning last week's resignation of Home Office mandarin Sir Philip Rutnam. But he might as well have taken the afternoon off.