Goves favourite rapper The one who calls Boris simple Cameron an airy-fairy dud and Osborne tight fisted

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Micheal Gove named Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer as a favourITe musician
The rapper is known for taking swipes at the Conservative Party in his lyrics
The Education Secretary was rebuked this week for branding the number of Old Etonians in Downing Street 'ridiculous'

By Simon Walters, Mail on Sunday Political Editor

PUBLISHED: 17:02 EST, 22 March 2014 | UPDATED: 17:54 EST, 22 March 2014

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Michael Gove faces another dressing-down from David Cameron after appearing to take a sideswipe at him, Boris Johnson and George Osborne for their antics in the riotous Bullingdon Club.

In an interview in today’s Mail on Sunday Event magazine, Education Secretary Mr Gove sings the praises of a rap singer who has mocked the Prime Minister, London Mayor and Chancellor for being members of the upper-crust Oxford group known for its drunken high jinks.

One song says Mr Cameron is a ‘dud’ leader who treats people like ‘serfs’ and makes people want to ‘punch him in the dimples’, and ridicules his claim to like the The Smiths pop group.

Another line says Mr Johnson is ‘simple’ and ‘spouts utter tripe', while Mr Osborne is ‘little Georgie who never bought a round’.

Despite his Tory-mocking lyrics, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, left, is a hit with Michael Gove, right

Mr Gove’s favourite rapper – Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, real name Jim Burke – has also written a song about cocaine and another called More Kissing In Porn.

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The Minister’s praise for Mr B comes days after he was rebuked by Mr Cameron for claiming there is a ‘ridiculous’ number of Old Etonians in Downing Street.

THE LYRICS THAT ENCHANTED MR GOVE

From: THEY DON’T ALLOW RAPPERS IN THE BULLINGDON CLUB

I chanced upon a blond scruff
Spouting utter tripe
‘Boris DePfeffel’ said he
By way of introduction
‘Want to join the chaps and I at a private function?’

Now Boris knew his classics,
But clearly was simple
Dave inspired desire
But just to punch him in his dimples
Hs gait was airy-fairy
And his plans unsound
And little Georgie never bought a round
Come to think of it, I didn’t want their jobs
And why would Mr B hang around with such nobs?

You can listen to the Smiths,
But that’s far from the pith
I’m heading for a snub
And they don’t allow rappers in the Bullingdon Club

The remark was seen by some as an attempt by Mr Gove to highlight his humble roots as the adopted son of an Aberdeen fishmonger – in marked contrast to Old Etonians Mr Cameron and Mr Gove’s potential Tory leadership rival Mr Johnson.

Mr Cameron, Mr Johnson and baronet’s son Mr Osborne were all in the Bullingdon Club in their student days, but not Mr Gove, who went to Oxford after winning a scholarship to a fee-paying school.

Mr Gove says in Event: ‘I am strangely addicted to “chap hop” rapper Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer.’ ‘Chap hop’ is a quirky English form of American ‘hip hop’ that parodies English culture. Pipe-smoking, self-styled English gent Mr B raps about high society, cricket, drugs, politics, tea, sex and the weather. He plays the ‘banjolele’, a cross between a banjo and a ukulele.

Mr B’s sideswipe at the Tory Oxford brigade is called They Don’t Allow Rappers In The Bullingdon Club, while Mr B’s Bullingdon Breakdown rap says: ‘Ra, ra, ra! We’re going to smash the oiks. Mr Major was dull to the untrained eye, but at least he liked cricket and wore a tie. It’s more than I can say for Dave, who thinks the serfs should behave.’

His The Crack Song lampoons rock stars for using cocaine to achieve fame and More Kissing In Porn asks: ‘So a crusade I’m going to start: Why can’t there be more kissing in porn?’

In the article, Mr Gove says: ‘I have a soft spot for contemporary English “eccentric” music. I liked Neil Innes and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band . . . and am strangely addicted to “chap hop” rappers Professor Elemental, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer and Mr Bruce And The Correspondents.’

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Sage like, Salisbury, United Kingdom, 22 minutes ago

Think its time for Gove to return to the back benches

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Spartan, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

How any normal human being can like this 'music' called rap is incomprehensible. Once I started listening to Strauss and Wagner I gave up on music from the last 50 years completely.