From chief whips to ex-girlfriends, the slew of attacks would have been a bruising watch for the housing secretary.
Are Michael Gove's promises to reform the 'feudal' leasehold system in tatters? Is certainly looks like it. In a bruising House of Lords debate on Wednesday over his flagship legislation, he was accused of 'shoddy politics' after a series of U-turns, and failing to honour pledges in the Tories's 2019 manifesto.
' And Lord Daniel Moylan, an adviser to Mr Johnson when he was London mayor, also denounced 'fleecehold', claiming: 'This is the next great scandal approaching the housing market.' Read more:Leaseholders: 'Buying a flat ruined my life'UK spends more on housing than almost any other developed nation The most powerful Labour attack on Mr Gove came from Lord Kennedy, the party's tall, burly chief whip in the Lords, who's a big cricket fan.
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