"[255] 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. [246], Gove has described himself as "a proud Zionist",[247] and supports the United Jewish Israel Appeal's fundraising activities. [56] Gove was seen as part of an influential set of Conservatives referred to as the Notting Hill Set, which included Conservative leader David Cameron, future Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Ed Vaizey, Nick Boles and Rachel Whetstone. [135], Gove introduced a ban on bee-harming pesticides like neonicotinoids. [239], 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." In the 2014 cabinet reshuffle he was moved to the post of chief whip. He received 41 votes in the second ballot, and by the third ballot had 51 MPs backing him. Gove said the figure was robust and it was up to the Government to decide how to spend it. Topics. [175], On 13 February 2020, Gove took on additional responsibilities as Minister for the Cabinet Office, succeeding Oliver Dowden, who had been appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in Johnson's first large reshuffle of his government. Gove said the leaked dossier outlined a "worst-case scenario". [209], Gove attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting in Washington, D.C.[210], The Telegraph journalist Matthew Lynn attacked Gove's record in government, describing him as the "driving force behind a whole series of terrible policy mistakes". 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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". [167], Writing in The Sunday Times on 28 July 2019, Gove said that a no-deal Brexit was "a very real prospect" and one that the Government was "working on the assumption of". Subsequently, Johnson declined to run. [93] The fee had been heavily criticised for, among other things, causing innocent people to plead guilty out of financial concerns. 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Michael Goves daughter Beatrice was all over the news throughout April 2020. First, Beatrice the daughter of Michael Gove and Sarah Vine hit the news after it was revealed that she was to be tested for coronavirus. Then, given she was stuck indoors quarantining, her TikTok videos were the talk of the internet. Maximum sentences for the crime of animal cruelty increased, as did protection for animals used by Government services, such as police dogs and horses. [44] He has expressed his view that the state should generally not interfere in domestic affairs and attests to have campaigned for economic freedom in certain matters. I did not say, as Mr Gove suggests, that British soldiers in the First World War were consciously fighting for a western liberal order. [82][83], On 15 July 2014, Gove's four-year stint in charge of the Department for Education came to an end when he was dismissed[84] as Secretary of State for Education and replaced by former Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan in a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle. [60] Prior to the 2010 general election, most of Gove's questions in Commons debates concerned children, schools and families, education, local government, Council Tax, foreign affairs and the environment. "[228], In remarks prepared for the 2020 Ditchley Lecture, Gove portrayed what he saw as the malaise of modern society as leading to populism, because the non-intellectual classes "chose to opt for polarised identity politics rather than stay with broad-based national political movements" instead of choosing to follow the politics of diversity, inclusion and identity politics they were force-fed by the elites. [99], Gove was a prominent figure in the campaign for Britain to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum and described his decision to take that side as "the most difficult decision of my political life". [214] He endorsed Kemi Badenoch's leadership bid and, after her defeat,[215] announced his support for Rishi Sunak. He also encouraged a "civilised, inclusive, positive and optimistic debate". [143] Concerns were also raised about the selection process for the job, which was overseen by Sir Ian Cheshire, the chairman of Goldsmith's investment firm, Menhaden Capital Management. Sarah Vine took it upon herself to spill the family beans yesterday in her column , specifying that her daughter is the one who has put her father out of circulation. [111] Instead, he was seen as a strong, highly influential supporter of Johnson for that role. [277] Gove has lived in Earl's Court,[278] Notting Hill,[279] North Kensington[280] and Mayfair. "[226], 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. MICHAEL GOVE had the POLICE called to his home after his teenage daughter threw a birthday party which descended into a boozy and drug-fuelled rave, it [177] 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,[178] until Gove self-isolated himself after a family member developed COVID-19 symptoms. [201], In October 2021, while walking on Horseferry Road in Westminster, Gove was accosted by COVID-19 anti-lockdown protesters. Last week, Michael Gove announced that he was entering isolation given that his 17-year-old daughter [35] In 1994 he began working for the BBC's Today programme. [17], From 1985 to 1988 he read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford,[18][19] during which time he joined the Conservative Party. [19][45][46], He was a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze and Newsnight Review on BBC Two. Michael Gove, 53, born Graeme Andrew Logan, met his wife Sarah Vine in 1998. He launched a second Conservative leadership bid in 2019, coming third behind Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. He was given the additional title of Minister for Intergovernmental Relations. 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Following the separation, Gove lived in an official minist WebMichael Gove, asked on BBCs Boris Johnson should quit as MP, says daughter of woman who died from Covid during Downing Street party Saturday 25 March 2023 10:30, Joe Middleton. This idea, which has really grabbed Michael Gove and other Tories, has its origins in the USA - specifically with an 84-year-old former English literature professor, E.D. Gove said: It is often the case that it is truanting or persistent absenteeism that [287], Gove won the "Rising Star Award" at the February 2006 Channel 4 political awards,[289] the "Minister of the Year" award at the 2011 Spectator awards,[290] and the "Minister to watch" award at the January 2020 Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards. Upon appointment of Johnson as Prime Minister, Gove was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with responsibilities including preparations for a no-deal Brexit. [146], In January 2019, May survived a vote of no confidence in her government, after a "barnstorming" speech from Gove directed towards the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. Gove has argued that "the only sustainable ethical foundation for society is a belief in the innate worth and dignity of every individual. [133], Following his appointment, Gove announced that a microbead ban would be put into place by the end of 2017. The marital home is in west London, and the couple's son and daughter are both teenagers. 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. The couple met when Mr Gove was comment editor at The Times, while Ms Vine worked as the arts editor. Disloyalty to me and, later, disloyalty to Boris [Johnson]". First reported by the Times newspaper, Mr Gove writes: We desperately need more homes to bring ownership within reach of many more people. 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[222], According to The Times, in the 2023 cabinet reshuffle, Sunak wanted Gove to become Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, but Gove asked to stay at the levelling up department. In widely reported remarks, he complained that "to call yourself a Christian in contemporary Britain is to invite pity, condescension or cool dismissal. Michael Gove married Sarah Vine, a columnist for the Daily Mail, in 2001. Blair, he thought, was "behaving like a true Thatcherite". The coalition governments public spending squeeze contributed to the neglect faced by social housing tenants, Michael Gove has suggested. [248] In 2019, he reiterated "One thing I have always been since I was a boy is a Zionist" and spoke of his desire to "celebrate everything that Israel and the Jewish people have brought to the life of this world and hold it dear to our hearts" and that "For as long as I have breath in my body and a platform on which to argue I shall be on your side, by your side and delighted and honoured to argue, powerfully I hope, on behalf of people who have contributed so powerfully to the life of this nation". Academies were not required to follow the national curriculum, and so weren't affected by the reforms. [16] As he entered sixth year he had to apply for a scholarship as his family fell on difficult economic circumstances. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 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