MICHAEL Gove sparked mass confusion this morning by wrongly suggesting that kids of divorced parents cannot see both of them during the lockdown.
The Cabinet minister was forced to clarify the correct Government advice after an embarrassing gaffe this morning on Good Morning Britain.
He told Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid: “You should not be moving children from home to home.”
But then just minutes later on BBC News he was forced to correct the record.
He said:”On a previous broadcast on GMB I stressed where possible, this should be kept to a minimum.
“It is the case that children under the age of 18 can see both parents.
“I was not clear earlier.”
And Mr Gove later tweeted: “To confirm – while children should not normally be moving between households, we recognise that this may be necessary when children who are under 18 move between separated parents. This is permissible & has been made clear in the guidance.”
But already Piers Morgan had blasted the minister for “making up policy on live TV”.
He said it was “totally unacceptable” that Mr Gove couldn’t confirm the right policy on air to millions of Good Morning Britain viewers.
