Why Boris Johnson is finally turning to the experts

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The advantage of highlighting expert advice is that you can blame them when it all goes wrong, writes Sean O'Grady

Second opinion: the Cabinet Office minister has undergone a Damascene conversion over the value of specialist knowledgehe deep irony of Michael “people in this country have had enough of experts” Gove solemnly reassuring an anxious public that the government is being guided by the best expert advice had not been lost on anyone. That Mr Gove can say such things with such a poker face is a tribute, of sorts, to his political skills.

 

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