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Michael Gove
Scottish journalist, author, and retired politician (born 1967)
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Michael Andrew Gove (; born Graeme Andrew Logan, 26 August 1967) is a Scottish journalist, author, and retired politician who served in various Cabinet positions under David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. Apart from periods as a backbencher from July 2016 to June 2017 and July to October 2022, he served continuously in the Cabinet from 2010 to 2024. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath from 2005 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, Gove twice ran to become Leader of the Conservative Party, in 2016 and 2019, finishing in third place on both occasions. He has been editor of The Spectator since October 2024.
Born in Aberdeen, Gove was in care until being adopted aged four months old, after which he was raised in the Kittybrewster area of the city. He attended the independent Robert Gordon's College and studied English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He then began a career as a journalist a
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In light of a new biography, I revisit the policies and philosophy of the UK’s most influential education minister of recent times.
In this latest edition of ‘we read the books so you don’t have to’, I’ve been working my way through a new biography of Michael Gove, A Man in a Hurry, by the political journalist Owen Bennett.
For the many international readers of this blog, I should explain that Gove was the Secretary of State for Education in the UK’s Conservative-led coalition government from 2010 to 2014. He was almost universally loathed by the teaching profession, and was eventually sacked on the grounds that his personality was regarded as too ‘toxic’. Gove went on to become Justice Minister and then Agriculture Minister, and is generally regarded as one of the architects of Brexit (if a national disaster requires an ‘architect’…). However, his ideas have continued to inform education policy, and his legacy lives on, not least through the continuing work of his acolyte Nick Gibb, the Schools Minister (whom I have written about before on this blog).
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Michael Gove
Michael Andrew Gove (born 26 August 1967) was UK secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs from June 2017 until July 2019, having been appointed to the role by former prime minister Theresa May in 11 June 2017.
Gove was appointed by incoming PM Boris Johnson as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster – the ceremonial title previously held by May’s cabinet fixer, David Lidington, who resigned rather than serve in a Johnson administration. [1]
Gove was Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from May 2015 to July 2016 but had left government following Theresa May's first cabinet reshuffle. [2]
From 2010 until July 2014, Gove was education secretary, implementing widespread market reforms to schools in England. [3] Prior to 2010, he was the shadow secretary of state for children schools and families and a close policy aide of David Cameron.
He is a former deputy editor of The Times, and a columnist there. [4] From June 2
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