Michael Gove made racist jokes and called Prince Charles wet and dripping adultery

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Mr Gove then turned to the union president, a student, and said: Putting yourself at the head of the Cambridge Union was a bit like putting Slobodan Milosevic at the Serbian high command in charge of ‘a help center for rape victims.

One of the debates, in 1987, took place while Mr Gove himself was still a student at Oxford University. The other two took place in 1993, when he started a career in journalism.

In a debate titled This House prefers a woman at the top, Mr Gove made a series of sexual jokes about Lucy Frazer, then a student and now prison minister.

He said Ms Frazer had been remarkably successful in coming from the lanes of the slums of Leeds. There is no suggestion that Mr. Gove and Ms. Frazer were involved in a romantic relationship at the time.

In another debate, he appeared to support a conspiracy theory that Sir Leon Brittan was a pedophile. The same lie was then peddled by Carl Beech, a fanciful who was later jailed for 18 years for hijacking the course of justice and defrauding.

The Liberal Democrats called for Mr. Gove’s sacking because of the comments.

His spokesperson declined to comment.

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