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		</div><p>British Cabinet minister Michael Gove has paid tribute to “wonderful” NHS staff who treated his son after a horrific Christmas Eve accident.</p>
<p>Fourteen-year-old Will was badly injured when he crashed through plate-glass French windows at the family home in London after tripping over the Christmas tree.</p>
<p>Mr Gove’s wife, newspaper columnist Sarah Vine, described how Will was rushed to A&;E and spent seven hours having cuts to his shoulder and arm stitched up.</p>
<p>She rushed back home after being called by her son while out doing last-minute Christmas shopping, and arrived to find their blood-spattered home looking like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino film.</p>
<p>Ms Vine answered a mobile phone call in the supermarket to hear a “howl of anguish” from her son. When he switched to video calling, she saw “a white-faced child with a huge gash on his shoulder about 10 centimetres long and deep enough so you could see the bone and tissues”.</p>
<figure id="attachment_122835" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-122835" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/5C5B437E-DAF0-4A00-A21D-AB5351B04A55.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-122835" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/5C5B437E-DAF0-4A00-A21D-AB5351B04A55.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="760" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-122835" class="wp-caption-text">Michael Gove and wife Sarah Vine</figcaption></figure>
<p>Writing in the Daily Mail, she said: “On the same arm, a strip of flesh was hanging, like something out of a horror movie.”</p>
<p>After running home in 10 minutes, she found her son shaking, with blood-soaked kitchen towels wrapped around his arm.</p>
<p>“His lips were blue, and the hall was looking distinctly Quentin Tarantino,” she said. “Both French door windowpanes were jagged, gaping holes. Carpet, presents, tree were all covered in a fine spattering of blood.”</p>
<p>The Environment Secretary arrived back home – “gasping for air having sprinted back from the Tube station” – as an ambulance crew prepared to take Will to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.</p>
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<p>Once in the hospital, Ms Vine said their son was “stitched up a treat” by doctors, who included consultant surgeon Edward Ibrahim.</p>
<p>The teenager emerged that evening “excited at the prospect of some thrilling scars with which to wow the girls”.</p>
<p>By the next morning, he was feeling well enough to wake his parents early to watch him open his presents like any other Christmas Day.</p>
<p>Ms Vine said the episode had left her haunted by the fragility of life and grateful for “my great good fortune in life”.</p>
<p>“Had he fallen an inch to the side either way, he could easily have severed a ligament or, much worse, an artery,” she said. “Or if had I missed his call — as I often do — I might not have got home in time.</p>
<p>“Had Will’s guardian angel not been paying close attention this Christmas Eve, I could have been facing a very different Christmas from the one I’ve just enjoyed.”</p>
<p>Mr Gove thanked the staff who treated his son in a tweet: “Just wanted to thank wonderful team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for their kindness and professionalism this Christmas – especially the superb trauma surgeon Mr Ibrahim – we are in your debt.”</p>
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