Beyonce gaffe leaves UK leader red-faced in Cabinet meeting

London : A senior leader of the UK’s ruling Conservative Party was left red-faced at a Cabinet meeting after his watch started playing a Beyonce number and he was given a dressing down by Prime Minister David Cameron. Michael Gove, the Government Chief Whip, was left floundering and he fumbled “for quite a while” when music started emanating from his watch during a Cabinet meeting. Onlookers assumed it was the ringtone on his mobile phone, banned from such meetings on security grounds. One described it as “Jazz FM-style comedown music after a heavy night out” and another as a “female ballad”, The Telegraph reported. Red-faced Gove would not say what the tune was because it was “an in joke”. But his wife gave the game away on the gaffe that took place during last week’s Cabinet meeting. Sarah Vine was more than happy to set the record straight in a newspaper column that the favoured tune was in fact “Beyonce’s latest oeuvre”. Vine disclosed that it was not in fact the contraband mobile phone that had got her husband into hot water but a new Pebble Smartwatch she had bought him for Christmas.