[97] On 14 July 2016 Gove was removed from the position of justice secretary by the new prime minister, Theresa May. He attended the independent Robert Gordon's College and studied English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. [121][122], In October 2016 Gove was elected to the Exiting the European Union Select Committee. [27], Gove first found employment on the Peterborough column of The Daily Telegraph, after passing an interview with Max Hastings. [26], After university, when applying for a job at the Conservative Research Department, he was told he was "insufficiently political" and "insufficiently Conservative", so he turned to journalism. [261] Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg criticised the idea, calling it "a case of the haves and the have yachts". [60], With the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government following the hung parliament after the 2010 general election, Gove became Secretary of State for Education. [33], After moving to national television in 1991, Gove worked for the BBC's On the Record,[32] and the Channel 4 current affairs programme A Stab in the Dark, alongside David Baddiel and Tracey MacLeod. [12] In October 2012, he wrote an apology letter to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class. Michael Gove was adopted when he was four months old by a working-class Aberdonian family View gallery Mr Gove with his parents Ernest and Christine Gove who adopted him and brought him. Allies confirmed the levelling up secretary had been dismissed after a. lord and lady masham felicity and mark. [203], Gove launched a white paper on levelling up on 2 February 2022. [37][38] He broke the news of the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election thanks to his connections with the upper echelons of the party. [162] His otherwise non-portfolio role included responsibility for no-deal Brexit preparations, overseeing constitutional affairs, maintaining the integrity of the Union and having oversight over all Cabinet Office policy. Michael Gove said that after the referendum, the UK holds all the cards and the country can chose any path it wants. [92] The fee had been heavily criticised for, among other things, causing innocent people to plead guilty out of financial concerns. [238] Gove fractured his foot in July 2015. "But it seems likely he was affected by the trip to Berlin because that would have brought him in the land of Martin Luther. [157][158] Gove stated that he regretted having done so, and regarded it as having been a mistake. [69][70] In March 2012 the Information Commissioner ruled that because emails the Financial Times had requested contained public information they could be the subject of a freedom of information request and ordered the information requested by the paper to be disclosed. "[223], Giving evidence before the Leveson Inquiry in May 2012, Gove said he was "unashamedly on the side of those who say that we should think very carefully before legislation and regulation because the cry 'Something must be done' often leads to people doing something which isn't always wise. As the co-convenor of Vote Leave, Gove was seen, along with Johnson, a fellow Conservative MP, as one of the most prominent figures of the 2016 referendum on EU membership. He took on the additional role of minister for the Cabinet Office in the 2020 cabinet reshuffle. [citation needed] Gove was eliminated in the second ballot after receiving 46 votes, compared to 199 for May and 84 for Leadsom. He was educated at two state schools (Sunnybank Primary School and Kittybrewster Primary School),[10] and later, on the recommendation of his primary school teacher,[11] he sat and passed the entrance exam for the independent Robert Gordon's College. [115] Later that day, it was announced that May had won the first round of voting, with support from 165 MPs, while Andrea Leadsom received 66 votes and Gove trailed with 48. British politician, MichaelGove's name was changed when he was adopted at just four months old. Why did Michael Gove change his name? [108], In his memoir For the Record, Cameron described Gove during this period as "mendacious", adding: "One quality shone through, disloyalty. [19] He became a member of the Oxford University Conservative Association and was secretary of Aberdeen South Young Conservatives. The ban arrived in early 2018. 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[182], After Johnson said that the UK had ended trade talks with the EU in October 2020, Gove said that the door was "still ajar" if the EU made changes over issues including fishing access and that "We hope the EU will change their position and we are certainly not saying if they do change their position we can't talk to them". [77][78] At the Association of Teachers and Lecturers Annual Conference in March 2013 a motion of no-confidence in Gove was passed. There have been quite enough marriage breakups already. [167][168] He said in August that it was "wrong and sad" that the EU was "refusing to negotiate" over a new withdrawal agreement. [39][40] He has also written a weekly column on politics and current affairs for the newspaper and contributed to The Times Literary Supplement, Prospect magazine and The Spectator. Your IP: In 2005 he was appointed Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning. [268] He was voiced by Lewis MacLeod. At a House of Commons Education Select Committee he said that this separation of achievement grew larger throughout pupils' school careers, stating, "In effect, rich thick kids do better than poor clever children when they arrive at school [and] the situation as they go through gets worse". Academies were not required to follow the national curriculum, and so weren't affected by the reforms. [176] When Johnson was self-isolating after having been tested positive for COVID-19, Gove stood in for Johnson briefly from 27 March 2020 at the daily briefings of the pandemic,[177] until Gove self-isolated himself after a family member developed COVID-19 symptoms. [79] The next month the National Union of Teachers passed a vote of no confidence in Gove at their annual conference and called for his resignation. [196][197], In a cabinet reshuffle on 15 September 2021, Gove was appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. [192][193], In a case brought to the High Court of Justice by the Good Law Project in June 2021, Gove was found to have acted unlawfully when the Government awarded a COVID-19 contract without a tender to a polling company owned by long-term associates of his and Dominic Cummings, then Johnson's chief adviser. Clegg told a BBC documentary that Gove "obviously communicated it well, I know he did". The criticism surrounded Gove's use of various private email accounts to send emails that allegedly related to his departmental responsibilities. [246], Gove is, like the great majority of UK Conservative Party MPs, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel. I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. "[187], Gove was co-chair of the EUUK Partnership Council with European Commission vice-president Maro efovi. As a consequence the Government decided to abandon parts of the Internal Market Bill that could have seen the UK break international law. His 5-year-old son was also named Michael and to the son's dying day his closest relatives would still call him Mike but not long after the boy's father changed his own name, he . [172], Gove helped to prepare Johnson for the 2019 general election debates by playing the role of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. [188], In May 2021, Gove attended the 2021 Champions League Final in Porto with his son, supporting Chelsea; following his visit he was alerted by the NHS Test and Trace system of his potential exposure to the disease, and that he would need to self-isolate. [157][158] In an article for The Times in December 1999, Gove had argued against the legalisation of drugs and criticised members of the middle classes for their hypocrisy in doing so. [57] Shortly afterwards he reportedly 'flipped' his designated second home, a property for which he claimed around 13,000 to cover stamp duty. [183], Gove was part of a committee of Cabinet ministers, comprising Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock, that made decisions on the COVID-19 pandemic. "[105] However, interviewer Faisal Islam interrupted Gove after the word "experts",[106] causing some sources to report that he had made a general statement that "the people have had enough of experts". [173] He offered to stand in for Johnson during a Channel 4 debate on environmental issues but the editor of Channel 4 News said the debate was only open to party leaders. [71][72] It was also alleged by the Financial Times that Gove and his advisors had destroyed email correspondence in order to avoid freedom of information requests. He said that the ban would take effect by 2040 and end the sales of new fuel combustion cars, trucks, vans, and buses that have petrol and diesel engines in the UK. Mai 2022 . 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"[252] Evans said Gove's attack was "ignorant" and asked how anyone could possibly say Britons were fighting for freedom given their country's main ally was Tsarist Russia. [132], After his appointment, Gove announced that a microbead ban would be put into place by the end of 2017. [269][bettersourceneeded], Gove met the journalist Sarah Vine in 1998, when he was comment editor and she was arts editor at The Times. [215], Following the election of Liz Truss, Gove variously backed and criticised the prime minister on Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng's controversial reforms to taxation. [236], In 2015, Gove cancelled a 5.9 million contract to provide services for prisons in Saudi Arabia, according to The Guardian, because it was thought "the British government should not be assisting a regime that uses beheadings, stoning, crucifixions and lashings as forms of punishment." [221], Gove is generally considered as combining socially liberal viewsfor example, on gay marriage[222]with a harder Eurosceptic and neoconservative position on foreign affairs. Michael Gove has failed to name a single change from Brexit that has "made business easier", as criticism of the economic harm from the trade deal grows.Source: BBC. Gove said the leaked dossier outlined a "worst-case scenario". He was campaign manager for Johnson in the 2016 Conservative Party leadership election but withdrew his support on the morning Johnson was due to declare and announced his own candidacy, finishing third behind May and Andrea Leadsom. However, it appears the strain of a dual-identity has got too . [253] Jeremy Paxman said Gove had "wilfully misquoted" Evans on the subject of the First World War. At the age of four months he was adopted by a Labour-supporting couple in Aberdeen, Ernest and Christine Gove, by whom he was brought up. [123] As well as attending meetings of the newspaper's politics team, Gove was dispatched to the United States[124] to report on campaign rallies in the upcoming presidential election. [148], In April 2019, after having a meeting with Extinction Rebellion, Gove said he agreed with the activists that there needed to be a deeper level of public understanding over climate change, but he declined to declare a climate emergency in the United Kingdom. [139], Other policies Gove had announced by December 2017 were that CCTV would be used in all slaughterhouses and beavers would be reintroduced into the UK. [204] The paper included plans to increase public investment across the UK and expand devolution in England. [287], In 2019, LBC's Iain Dale and a "panel of experts" placed Gove third in a list of that year's "Top 100 Most Influential Conservatives". Gove said he would repay the claim for the cot mattress, but maintained that his other claims were "below the acceptable threshold costs for furniture" and that moving house was necessary "to effectively discharge my parliamentary duties". [103], He argued Britain would be "freer, fairer and better off" for leaving,[100] and that "[t]he day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want. [111], The Telegraph opined that Gove's actions in undermining Johnson's leadership aspirations constituted "the most spectacular political assassination in a generation"[112] while The Guardian labelled it as a "Machiavellian move". From 2015, GCSEs will move from coursework to exams at the end of two years and will be graded from 8 to 1, rather than A* to G. "We need to reform our examination system to restore public . The liberation of Iraq has actually been that rarest of thingsa proper British foreign policy success. 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