Britain’s House of Commons is at its best when members of Parliament deliver passionate, persuasive speeches on matters of national consequence. We saw one such moment on Wednesday, when environment secretary Michael Gove of the Conservative Party attacked Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Gove’s address came just before a parliamentary confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May. That vote was won by May a few minutes later. Still, Gove’s speech was a tour de force. It was angry but not fanatical, passionate but not somber, and intellectual but simply put.

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