“It is really important to remember in all this that, while high paid jobs are unevenly spread, low paid jobs, and indeed poverty, are not,” a top think tank has warned.
Gove told Andrew Neil that Boris Johnson has "been clear that mistakes were made".
The government's flagship Levelling Up white paper will finally be published this week.
"It shows the lengths they are prepared to go to keep Boris Johnson in power," SNP leader in Westminster Ian Blackford said.
“If the Levelling Up Secretary getting stuck in a lift isn't a metaphor, I don't know what is,” one journalist said.
In an interview with Tatler, Vine added that Gove's "only mistress" throughout their marriage "was politics".
Michael Gove had told the Commons that an "eight-stage process" was in place to ensure value for taxpayer money.
Michael Gove has pushed back publishing the government's flagship levelling up paper until the new year.
David Meller - a prominent Tory donor - was referred for a PPE deal via the government's 'VIP lane'.