Michael Gove today claimed he had gone on drives to test his eyesight. The Cabinet Office Minister insisted he, like Boris Johnson's aide Dominic Cummings, had got behind the wheel to see if his eyes were good enough for a long journey.
Mr Cummings prompted incredulity when he tried to explain a 60-mile round trip to a beauty spot by saying he wanted to test his eyesight before a 260-mile journey from Durham to London.
But Mr Gove, who as Education Secretary from 2010 was Mr Cummings' boss, suggested he too had taken the unusual step of testing his eyesight through driving.
Asked on LBC if he would have gone "on a 60-mile round trip to test your eyesight?", Mr Gove replied: "I have, on occasions in the past, driven with my wife in order to
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