[92] The fee had been heavily criticised for, among other things, causing innocent people to plead guilty out of financial concerns. [95], Within three months of his taking office, the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) voted to stop taking new work in protest at Gove's insistence that they work for lower fees. During his early career, he worked the Sussex theatre scene under the names 'Michael White' and 'Michael Scott'. He then changed his name from Logan to MichaelAndrew Gove. [184] He was chair of the COVID-19 operations subcommittee. Gove said the leaked dossier outlined a "worst-case scenario". [56], Over a five-month period between December 2005 and April 2006, Gove claimed more than 7,000 on a house bought with his wife Sarah Vine, in 2002. Gove has argued that "the only sustainable ethical foundation for society is a belief in the innate worth and dignity of every individual. [142], An important aspect of Gove's tenure was the introduction of laws concerning animal welfare. [13] Gove joined the Labour Party in 1983[14] and campaigned on behalf of the party for the 1983 general election. At the beginning of March 2016, he was appointed co-convenor of Vote Leave, with Labour MP Gisela Stuart, and given responsibility for chairing the campaign committee. He took on the additional role of minister for the Cabinet Office in the 2020 cabinet reshuffle. [142] 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. [242] He has expressed interest in the idea of letting Scottish people living in the other regions of the UK vote in a second Scottish independence referendum. [245] 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". When Michael Gove first came to public prominence a few years ago, I remember thinking this guy has a very unusual and distinctive accent, in a similar way to Loyd Grossman, except with a hint of Scottish rather than American, but I could never quite place it. In the 2014 cabinet reshuffle he was moved to the post of chief whip. Allies confirmed the levelling up secretary had been dismissed after a. [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. Wembley's all set for a Michael Gove-Jeremy Browne love-in", "The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards: The Winners", "The Top 100 Most Influential Conservatives of 2019", Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Gove&oldid=1134257836, This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:48. Gove stressed "basic writing, meeting chairing and time management skills" for all policy civil servants. [97] On 14 July 2016 Gove was removed from the position of justice secretary by the new prime minister, Theresa May. 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[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." 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[35][36] In 1995 he was identified by The Guardian as part of a group of "a new breed of 21st-century Tories". It allowed for up to three households to form a "bubble" from 23 to 27 December,[185] but was cancelled for London and South East England, while being limited to a single day for the rest of England, after the discovery of a mutant COVID-19 strain. "[234], Gove had to be calmed by parliamentary colleagues in August 2013 after shouting, "A disgrace, you're a disgrace!" [57] While he was moving between homes, on one occasion he stayed at the Pennyhill Park Hotel and Spa in Bagshot, Surrey, following a constituency engagement, charging the taxpayer more than 500 per night's stay. [196][197], In a cabinet reshuffle on 15 September 2021, Gove was appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. [175], During the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, Gove generated confusion after saying on ITV's Good Morning Britain that children with separated parents were not allowed to move between their parents' homes. Did michael gove change his name? [213] He endorsed Kemi Badenoch's leadership bid and, after her defeat,[214] announced his support for Rishi Sunak. In the next few days I will lay out my plan for the United Kingdom which I hope can provide unity and change. [57] Shortly afterwards he reportedly 'flipped' his designated second home, a property for which he claimed around 13,000 to cover stamp duty. Gove had criticised Cambridge professor Sir Richard Evans saying his views were more like that of an undergraduate cynic in a Footlights review. [229], The Financial Times describes Gove as having "strong neoconservative convictions". "[228] The Independent reported in 2015 that Gove had not appeared to repeat his backing for the death penalty since he made the remarks in the late 1990s. [6] Logan was put into care soon after he was born. When at the agricultural ministry, Mr Gove went to a farming event. Under Prime Minister Sunak, Gove was reinstated to his previous roles of Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations. [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. Here, we outline five changes Gove has made to the education system in Britain and review the flurry of reactions from our forums - the cheers and the tears - to the ending of his time in overall charge of the country's schools. In the last ballot, he had 75 votes and was voted out losing by only two to Hunt, the eventual runner-up. [146] The speech, which gained significant media attention, attacked Corbyn for his foreign policy record, with Tom Rogan of the Washington Examiner describing it as "A tour de force. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. He chose Michael . Gove sold the house and began to commute to his constituency. Appointed Secretary of State for Education in the CameronClegg coalition, Gove terminated the previous Labour government's Building Schools for the Future programme, reformed A-Level and GCSE qualifications in favour of final examinations, and responded to the Trojan Horse scandal. at various Conservative and Liberal Democrat rebels who contributed to defeating the coalition government's motion to attack Syria in retaliation for the 2013 Ghouta attacks. [203], Gove launched a white paper on levelling up on 2 February 2022. Mai 2022 . [16], From 1985 to 1988 he read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford,[17][18] during which time he joined the Conservative Party. [73][74], In June 2012, Michael Portillo backed Gove to be a serious contender in a future race for the Conservative Party leadership,[75] though Gove had said in an interview a few months before that "I'm constitutionally incapable of it. Michael Gove's grammar: former education minister is gonna . He received 41 votes in the second ballot, and by the third ballot had 51 MPs backing him. [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. [81][82], On 15 July 2014, Gove's four-year stint in charge of the Department for Education came to an end when he was dismissed[83] as Secretary of State for Education and replaced by former Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan in a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle. The allegations suggested that Gove and his advisers believed they could avoid their correspondence being subject to freedom of information requests, as they believed that their private email accounts were not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. [57], On 2 July 2007, Gove was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (a newly created department set up by Gordon Brown), shadowing Ed Balls. [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. [67], In March 2011, Gove was criticised for not understanding the importance of school architecture and accused of having misrepresented the cost. [212], Gove declined to run in the JulySeptember 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. [118], In the aftermath of the EU referendum, Gove was accused by Nick Clegg of being the source of a claim by The Sun that Queen Elizabeth II made comments supportive of Brexit in a private lunch at Windsor Castle. [257], In April 2015, he described his faith in an article for The Spectator. After the 2021 cabinet reshuffle he served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations until Gove told Johnson to resign during the July 2022 Government crisis and was dismissed by Johnson. [20] He helped to write speeches for Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet ministers, including Peter Lilley and Michael Howard. He remains on good terms with Rupert Murdoch,[41][42] whom Gove described in evidence before the Leveson Inquiry as "one of the most impressive and significant figures of the last 50 years". The fourth ballot saw him gain 61 votes, moving him into second position. Rather than isolating for the normal ten-day period, Gove was able to take part in a pilot scheme designed to investigate the efficacy of testing, which required him to self-isolate for only one day and undergo testing every day for a week. Instead he urged people to listen to Margaret MacMillan of Oxford University. MacMillan responded, saying: "I agree with some of what Mr Gove says, but he is mistaking myths for rival interpretations of history. [125], In December 2016, Gove defended a Vote Leave claim that an additional 350million a week could be spent on the NHS when Britain left the EU. As the protesters attempted to surround him, he was protected by police officers and escorted to a nearby building. 172.81.182.249 to have accused Gove of being naive. The ban does not include plug-in hybrid vehicles. After he joined the Gove family, Logan's name was changed to Michael Andrew Gove. He praised Franklin D. Roosevelt as a model for his renewal of capitalism and he imagined the construction of inclusive societies with the deconstruction of Whitehall. He launched a second Conservative leadership bid in 2019 although eventually came third behind Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. The allegation was denied by Gove's department, which stated that deleting email was simply part of good computer housekeeping. [131] Gove said he "was quite surprised" to be asked to join the cabinet after May dismissed him in 2016 after she became Prime Minister. Gove initially said that this did not include Scotch eggs, which he defined as a "starter" on multiple occasions (although he said it "would count as a substantial meal if there were table service"); however, he later backtracked and said: "I do recognise that it is a substantial meal. [219], On 25 October 2022, following the accession of Rishi Sunak to the prime ministership, Gove was reinstated to his previous roles of Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations. and Shelter campaign has been backed by a huge number of readers [50], Gove won the Conservative candidacy for Surrey Heath on 5 July 2004,[51] after the sitting MP Nick Hawkins was deselected by the local Conservative association. [96] The CBA subsequently praised his "courage" in reversing the proposed cuts. "[114], By 5 July 2016, Gove was in third place in the leadership election, behind May and Andrea Leadsom; the latter had gained an endorsement from Johnson. Verffentlicht am 23. 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[21] During his first year,[22] he met future Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ran his campaign to be President of the Oxford Union. [citation needed] Gove was eliminated in the second ballot after receiving 46 votes, compared to 199 for May and 84 for Leadsom. "[187], Gove was co-chair of the EUUK Partnership Council with European Commission vice-president Maro efovi. Some political analysts predicted that Gove might quit the race if he was unable to beat Leadsom in the first round of voting. [94] Gove was also praised for his prominent role in scrapping a British bid for a Saudi prison contract. 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. Blair, he thought, was "behaving like a true Thatcherite". 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[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. Sir Michael Caine has changed his name by deed poll to Michael Caine. [90] Gove remained in the post of chief whip until May 2015, when the role was taken over by Mark Harper. I don't know where you can find a similar situation in any other developed economy. There he highlighted the disruption of the no-deal Brexit crisis on food exports. [4] Gove regarded his birthplace as Edinburgh until it was revealed in a biography in 2019 that he was born in a maternity hospital in Fonthill Road, Aberdeen. [12] In October 2012, he wrote an apology letter to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class. [260], Gove's proposal for a new Royal Yacht costing 60 million was made public in January 2012. [218] He endorsed Sunak's leadership bid. 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[253] Jeremy Paxman said Gove had "wilfully misquoted" Evans on the subject of the First World War. [200], In October 2021, while walking on Horseferry Road in Westminster, Gove was accosted by COVID-19 anti-lockdown protesters. Gove was moved to the post of Government chief whip,[84] which was portrayed as a demotion by his detractors; Prime Minister Cameron denied this was the case. After the 2015 general election, Cameron promoted Gove as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor in his newly formed cabinet. But Gove backers say that, when removed from the discipline of the Vote Leave operation, the old Boris returned. [126], In his capacity as a writer for The Times, Gove gave the first British post-election interview to Donald Trump in January 2017, along with Kai Diekmann from Bild,[127][128] making him the second British politician to meet Trump as President-elect of the United States after Nigel Farage. [178], In May 2020, Gove was criticised[179][bettersourceneeded] after his wife Sarah Vine shared a bookcase picture "as a very special treat for my trolls" which featured a book by the Holocaust denier David Irving, and a copy of The Bell Curve, which controversially claims that intelligence is highly heritable and that median IQ varies among races. [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". During that campaign, we said we should do a deal with the EU and be part of the network of free trade deals that covers all Europe, from Iceland to Turkey". lord and lady masham felicity and mark. [118] That month he was re-hired by The Times[123] as a weekly[124] columnist and book reviewer. GCSEs and A-levels are about to become harder. Chris Huhne once called him 'the politest man in the House of Commons' and it's not as if he's been tarred with the Bullingdon brush. Michael Gove was sacked by Boris Johnson on Wednesday evening after telling the prime minister to quit earlier in the day. [167][168] He said in August that it was "wrong and sad" that the EU was "refusing to negotiate" over a new withdrawal agreement. 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[23] In an interview with Andrew Gimson, Gove remarked that at Oxford, Johnson was "quite the most brilliant extempore speaker of his generation". In a move that surprised most political analysts, Gove withdrew his support for Johnson on 30 June 2016, hours before the deadline, without any previous notice to Johnson and announced his own candidacy in the leadership election. Michael Caine couldn't be further from the actor's actual birth name, which just so happens to be Maurice Jospeh Micklewhite. [116] He subsequently told the media that he was "naturally disappointed" and described his two opponents as "formidable politicians", welcoming the fact that the next PM would be female. He was given responsibilities for the Government's levelling up agenda, the Union and elections, the last two of which he retained from his previous post. Click to reveal [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". There was particular fury that phone calls that needed to be made to secure support . [288], Secretary of State for Education (20102014), Chief Whip of the House of Commons (20142015), Secretary of State for Justice (20152016), European Union membership referendum (2016), Conservative Party leadership candidate (2016), Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (20172019), Conservative Party leadership candidate (2019), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (20192021), Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (20212022), Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (2022present). When asked about those who believe "Marx was right all along", he responded that they were guilty of ignoring the systematic abuses and poverty of centrally planned economies, and criticised the historian Eric Hobsbawm, saying that "only when Hobsbawm weeps hot tears for a life spent serving an ideology of wickedness will he ever be worth listening to. "[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. 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. It meant that manufacturers could no longer produce the tiny beads used in cosmetics and care products. Elected for Surrey Heath at the 2005 general election, he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet by Cameron in 2007 as Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. Why Did Martin Luther King Jr.'s Father Change His Name . In a joint statement released on Friday, the couple said they remained "close friends" and would continue supporting their two children, but wanted privacy and would not be commenting further.. [278] In July 2021, a joint statement on behalf of Gove and Vine said that they had agreed to separate and were in the process of finalising their divorce. 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[119][120] Gove declined to deny leaking the Queen's comments. 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". [27], Gove first found employment on the Peterborough column of The Daily Telegraph, after passing an interview with Max Hastings. (And why it matters)", "Michael Gove draws fire for owning book by Holocaust denier David Irving", "Michael Gove and wife criticised for showcasing bookshelf which includes Holocaust denier's book", "The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray review gentrified xenophobia", "Brexit: Door 'still ajar' for EU trade talks, says Gove", "After the lockdown leak, what does the future hold for Boris Johnson's 'quad' committee? To his friends, he's simply 'Govey'. 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