In an interview with The Guardian on Friday, Warsi, a member of the House of Lords, said she and other senior members of the Conservative Party are concerned about Gove’s views on British Moslems.
On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced she was prepared to step down before the next phase of Brexit negotiations. Gove, the secretary of environment, is among the leading candidates to replace May.
Lady Warsi said any party that elected Gove as a leader "has got major problems."
Asked what she thought about the idea of Gove replacing the current prime minister, she said, "I just don’t even want to imagine it. I’ve sat in too many meetings, I’ve done everything from rolling my eyes, to thinking, gosh, thank God he’s not prime minister."
Warsi said there were other senior Conservative politicians who also had serious concerns about him. "I’m not the only one to raise concerns about Michael. Ken Clarke has spoken about it, even his friends close to him. Even
David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
has spoken about concerns about the way he views the world and the way he views certain communities."
Following the 2005 London tube and bus bombings, Gove wrote a highly controversial book, Celsius 7/7, in which he railed against Moslems. He stated that "a sizeable minority" of Britannia’s 1.8 million Moslems held "rejectionist Islamist views."