Is Gove keeping a low profile while the Conservatives are tearing themselves apart with ever more ghastly politics, to sweep in as some sort of reasonable decent saviour?
Because he isn't that.

Nick Taylor This is exactly what he is trying to do. There is always an ulterior motive. He was front and centre with Johnson in 2016 and it shouldn’t be forgotten. He is an extremely dangerous political figure with excessively right wing views.