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Michael Gove played Beyonce ringtone in Cabinet meeting

By Ella Alexander
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It turns out Education Secretary Michael Gove is a fan of Beyoncéhttps://beautysale.store/person/beyonce%3C/a%3E.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3EHe was given a short shrift by David Cameron last week, after his new Pebble Smartwatch went off in a Cabinet meeting, playing one of the singer's latest tracks.

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At first, no one knew what this unfamiliar sound was. One onlooker described it "Jazz FM-style comedown music after a heavy night out" and another as a "female ballad".

Gove refused to reveal what the song was because it was an "in-joke". The politician wasn't sure how to silence his new gadget, which was a gift from journalist and wife Sarah Vine, so Beyoncéhttps://beautysale.store/person/beyonce%3C/a%3E%27s "warblings" went out for all to hear.

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"And so it was that just as the Chancellor of the Exchequer was explaining a particularly complex piece of fiscal policy to Her Majesty's assembled Cabinet, my husband (the Government Chief Whip, Michael Gove) mistakenly instructed his watch to play Beyoncéhttps://beautysale.store/person/beyonce%3C/a%3E%27s latest oeuvre," wrote Vine.

"Try as he might, he simply could not silence her warblings. The more buttons he pressed, the more effusive she got.

"Eventually, he managed to switch her off, but not before he had received a stern reprimand from the Prime Minister himself."

Vine is now considering giving her husband a Swatch watch to avoid similar future embarrassment.

SOURCE: DAILY MAIL