MICHAEL Gove gives a thumbs-up on a run before his conference speech.
The minister later told delegates Sir Keir Starmer was like a jellyfish.
He said: “He’s transparent, spineless and swept along by the tide.”
Recently Mr Gove revealed how he aims to outlaw slacker councils from bringing in the four-day week.
He also blasted town hall staff who skive on the job.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun on Sunday, the top Cabinet minister disclosed that he is looking into a law change to prevent such “quiet quitting” at local authorities.
He insisted that councils adopting a four-day week, such as Lib Dem-run South Cambs — and Labour-run Norwich, which wants to — could face funding cuts if they flout the ban.
Mr Gove fumed: “People who pay council tax work five days a week or longer.
“They deserve 100 per cent of the service, not 80 per cent. The idea that everyone should be slacking in this way at the expense of hard-working taxpayers is completely wrong.
“In lockdown, it was important to make sure people, where possible, could work from home. That’s because we had a global pandemic.
“It’s not a lifestyle shift — slacking, quiet quitting, all the rest of it. That is just a way of having some people maintain their quality of life at the expense of others.”
