> Michael Gove missed a BBC interview slot on Monday morning after getting stuck in a lift at New Broadcasting House.
>The cabinet minister had been due to appear on the broadcaster’s Today programme at 8.10am but was noticeably absent in the airwaves.
> Explaining the situation, Today programme presenter Nick Robinson said: “We were hoping to talk to Michael Gove. You might have been hoping to hear from Michael Gove at this time. He’d very kindly come into the building, so we didn’t have to deal with one of those awkward line failures.
>“Mr Gove is stuck in the Broadcasting House lift. I wish I could say this is a joke it is not a joke. It is not very funny for Mr Gove and a security men who have been stuck there for some time.”
>Mr Robinson said Mr Gove was “keeping cheerful” and had “even offered at one stage to talk to us on the phone” from the elevator.
>He added that he hoped the communities secretary could be released from the lift so that we could “hear from him a little bit later in the programme”. The presenter joked that W1A, a series which parodies the internal workings of the BBC, was clearly “not a satirical programme”.
>The Cabinet minister eventually appeared on the programme at around 8.30am, with Mr Nick Robinson offering him “apologies on behalf of the BBC”.
>Mr Gove replied: “After more than half an hour in the lift you successfully levelled me up, so I’m delighted to be here. I completely understand, these sorts of things happen. If you and I together given ammunition for Armando Ianuuchi for the next episode of W1A, then fine.”
>When he was informed that a new hashtag #freemichaelgove had been coined on social media, Mr Gove added: “I suspect there are probably rather more people who are hoping I’ll be incarcerated for longer, but still.”
He’s putting a request in for a few lines to keep him perked up.
Aerosmith were only one letter away from a prophetic omen.
Well he’s technically scottish, bloody voice activated elevators.
Fridges. Lifts. What next? Nadhim Zawahi in a store cupboard?
> When he was informed that a new hashtag #freemichaelgove had been coined on social media, Mr Gove added: “I suspect there are probably rather more people who are hoping I’ll be incarcerated for longer, but still.”
Be a wild turn of events if in 2024 Gove memed his way into leadership.
That poor bastard stuck in a lift with Michael Gove.
As someone who has been in NBH a few times it’s even funnier when you realise that lift is the one that plays 1xtra so I’m surprised he wasn’t raving to it.
I am an ex BBC drone, and can confirm that the lifts in New Broadcasting House are awful in many ways, not least that each lift has a BBC network piped into it at considerable volume. I hope Govey was stuck in the one that plays 1Xtra.
Is he still stuck? Fuck him anyway, he’s a slithery little toad.
I think we should start a gofundme for the security guard who is stuck with him, he will need some form of therapy…
Lmao I know this is random but also we know it could only happen to Gove.
When did we start saying elevator instead of lift? We’re *British* for goodness’ sake..
I guess this shouldn’t really be cross posted to /r/upliftingnews…
If he’d been in a lift like any normal British person, he might well have made it.
There’s something ironic about the Secretary of State for Levelling Up being stuck in a lift.
Is this the ‘levelling up’ I’ve been hearing about?
Levelling up secretary can’t even level up himself……
Being in an elevator with Michael Gove, even if it doesn’t breakdown, must be absolutely horrible on so, so many levels…
This makes me cautiously optimistic for the rest of 2022.
One of the Definitions of hell… being stuck in a lift with gove
Is he still in there? Can we just leave him in the lift forever? I’m sure nobody will mind the screams
This the new right wing comedy I’m told the BBC needed to produce?
I hope he didn’t need a lift specialist to get him out. This country has frankly had enough of experts. /s
Poor elevator having a Gove stuck inside of you for longer than necessary.
tbf there’s so much cocaine on just about every surface in Westminster that he’s used to getting in a lift and sniffing everything.
In this case the emergency stop button.
Congratulations Mr Gove, you’ve passed the test, you are now Prime Minister.
Stuck is that what we’re calling crapped his pants now.
At least it wasn’t a refrigerator. What is about these Tories and hiding inside small boxes?
Once again the levelling up programme fails (unless he was going *down* which would be an equally desirable metaphor)
(lift) breaking news! This just in … Slight malfunction in machine becomes headline news.
Coming up! Government minister insists on microphones in all BBC lifts.
From the British public we say a heartfelt thank you to the lift.
Imagine if this happened to Diane Abbot. The double standards in this country stink
This is the kind of shit only Pob could get up to.
Pob faced tory cunt.
Hiding in fridges and stuck in elevators. What will the Tories do next?
He refused to press the “call for aid” button after insisting for 4 hours “level two means level two!” and repeatedly pressing the same button, expecting a different effect.
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> Michael Gove missed a BBC interview slot on Monday morning after getting stuck in a lift at New Broadcasting House.
>The cabinet minister had been due to appear on the broadcaster’s Today programme at 8.10am but was noticeably absent in the airwaves.
> Explaining the situation, Today programme presenter Nick Robinson said: “We were hoping to talk to Michael Gove. You might have been hoping to hear from Michael Gove at this time. He’d very kindly come into the building, so we didn’t have to deal with one of those awkward line failures.
>“Mr Gove is stuck in the Broadcasting House lift. I wish I could say this is a joke it is not a joke. It is not very funny for Mr Gove and a security men who have been stuck there for some time.”
>Mr Robinson said Mr Gove was “keeping cheerful” and had “even offered at one stage to talk to us on the phone” from the elevator.
>He added that he hoped the communities secretary could be released from the lift so that we could “hear from him a little bit later in the programme”. The presenter joked that W1A, a series which parodies the internal workings of the BBC, was clearly “not a satirical programme”.
>The Cabinet minister eventually appeared on the programme at around 8.30am, with Mr Nick Robinson offering him “apologies on behalf of the BBC”.
>Mr Gove replied: “After more than half an hour in the lift you successfully levelled me up, so I’m delighted to be here. I completely understand, these sorts of things happen. If you and I together given ammunition for Armando Ianuuchi for the next episode of W1A, then fine.”
>When he was informed that a new hashtag #freemichaelgove had been coined on social media, Mr Gove added: “I suspect there are probably rather more people who are hoping I’ll be incarcerated for longer, but still.”
He’s putting a request in for a few lines to keep him perked up.
Aerosmith were only one letter away from a prophetic omen.
Well he’s technically scottish, bloody voice activated elevators.
Fridges. Lifts. What next? Nadhim Zawahi in a store cupboard?
> When he was informed that a new hashtag #freemichaelgove had been coined on social media, Mr Gove added: “I suspect there are probably rather more people who are hoping I’ll be incarcerated for longer, but still.”
Be a wild turn of events if in 2024 Gove memed his way into leadership.
That poor bastard stuck in a lift with Michael Gove.
As someone who has been in NBH a few times it’s even funnier when you realise that lift is the one that plays 1xtra so I’m surprised he wasn’t raving to it.
I am an ex BBC drone, and can confirm that the lifts in New Broadcasting House are awful in many ways, not least that each lift has a BBC network piped into it at considerable volume. I hope Govey was stuck in the one that plays 1Xtra.
Is he still stuck? Fuck him anyway, he’s a slithery little toad.
I think we should start a gofundme for the security guard who is stuck with him, he will need some form of therapy…
Lmao I know this is random but also we know it could only happen to Gove.
When did we start saying elevator instead of lift? We’re *British* for goodness’ sake..
I guess this shouldn’t really be cross posted to /r/upliftingnews…
If he’d been in a lift like any normal British person, he might well have made it.
There’s something ironic about the Secretary of State for Levelling Up being stuck in a lift.
Is this the ‘levelling up’ I’ve been hearing about?
Levelling up secretary can’t even level up himself……
Being in an elevator with Michael Gove, even if it doesn’t breakdown, must be absolutely horrible on so, so many levels…
This makes me cautiously optimistic for the rest of 2022.
One of the Definitions of hell… being stuck in a lift with gove
Is he still in there? Can we just leave him in the lift forever? I’m sure nobody will mind the screams
This the new right wing comedy I’m told the BBC needed to produce?
I hope he didn’t need a lift specialist to get him out. This country has frankly had enough of experts. /s
Poor elevator having a Gove stuck inside of you for longer than necessary.
tbf there’s so much cocaine on just about every surface in Westminster that he’s used to getting in a lift and sniffing everything.
In this case the emergency stop button.
Congratulations Mr Gove, you’ve passed the test, you are now Prime Minister.
Stuck is that what we’re calling crapped his pants now.
At least it wasn’t a refrigerator. What is about these Tories and hiding inside small boxes?
Once again the levelling up programme fails (unless he was going *down* which would be an equally desirable metaphor)
(lift) breaking news! This just in … Slight malfunction in machine becomes headline news.
Coming up! Government minister insists on microphones in all BBC lifts.
From the British public we say a heartfelt thank you to the lift.
Imagine if this happened to Diane Abbot. The double standards in this country stink
This is the kind of shit only Pob could get up to.
Pob faced tory cunt.
Hiding in fridges and stuck in elevators. What will the Tories do next?
He refused to press the “call for aid” button after insisting for 4 hours “level two means level two!” and repeatedly pressing the same button, expecting a different effect.