Well politics is a dirty business and journalism and truth are rarely comfortable bed fellows.
Both Gove and Johnson are ex-journalists. (The Times/ The Daily Telegraph).
And truth? "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie". (Goebbels).