Michael Gove plays the Holocaust card

This story tells how Michael Gove, Education Secretary, awarded millions of pounds from public funds he controlled to an organisation which paid him as a consultant. And what is the response of this principled servant of the public to having his peculation exposed?

On Friday a spokesman for Gove said: "It is unbelievable to attack any politician for funding the protection of Jewish children. It is even more extraordinary and frankly offensive to do it on Holocaust Memorial Day."

That's right. It's unbelievable to attack a boondoggle such as providing security guards for Jewish schools (while other schools have to take their chances with crazies). And it's even more extraordinary and offensive for Michael Gove to hide behind six million dead Jews in an attempt to intimidate the media into ignoring it. Especially on Holocaust Memorial Day.

The man has no shame.