"[43], Gove was a member of the winning team in Grampian Television's quiz show Top Club,[263] and played the school chaplain in the 1995 family comedy A Feast at Midnight. "[76], Gove was criticised by teachers unions for his attempts to overhaul English education. I. [94] Gove was also praised for his prominent role in scrapping a British bid for a Saudi prison contract. [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. "Daddy King himself said he changed the name because he had an uncle named Martin and an uncle named Luther, and he was following his father's wishes to change the name," the Stanford professor explained. [144], May offered Gove the post of secretary of state for exiting the European Union after Dominic Raab's resignation over the Brexit withdrawal agreement in November 2018. [140], Gove faced criticism over the appointment of Ben Goldsmith to the role of non-executive director[141] at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as Goldsmith had previously donated cash to Gove's Surrey Heath constituency. I did not say, as Mr Gove suggests, that British soldiers in the First World War were consciously fighting for a western liberal order. Today we've been pushing forward on the vaccine rollout and post-Covid economic recovery", "Reshuffle Latest: Truss Becomes Foreign Secretary, Gove Moves To Housing", "The Rt Hon Michael Gove @MichaelGove has been appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government @MHCLG He takes on cross-government responsibility for levelling up. There are some things in life you know it's better not to try. Subsequently, Johnson declined to run. 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Known as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government until 19 September 2021. and Shelter campaign has been backed by a huge number of readers [7] After he joined the Gove family, Logan's name was changed to Michael Andrew Gove. [174], 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. As a consequence the Government decided to abandon parts of the Internal Market Bill that could have seen the UK break international law. He had allegedly tried to avoid a 5 entrance fee by stating he was the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. [142], An important aspect of Gove's tenure was the introduction of laws concerning animal welfare. 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. [97] On 14 July 2016 Gove was removed from the position of justice secretary by the new prime minister, Theresa May. They were just defending their homeland and fighting what they saw as German militarism. Following the 2015 general election and the formation of the majority Cameron government, Gove was promoted to Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. [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. [235] He later stated he was reacting to the manner in which Labour MPs celebrated the outcome of the vote. [66], During the 2010 Conservative Party Conference, Gove announced that the primary and secondary-school national curricula for England would be restructured, and that study of authors such as Byron, Keats, Jane Austen, Dickens and Thomas Hardy would be reinstated in English lessons as part of a plan to improve children's grasp of English literature and language. [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. 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". "[225], 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. [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". [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. Clegg told a BBC documentary that Gove "obviously communicated it well, I know he did". [13] Gove joined the Labour Party in 1983[14] and campaigned on behalf of the party for the 1983 general election. We must ensure we are ready", "Brexit: EU 'refusing to negotiate', says Gove", "Brexit: No-deal dossier shows worst-case scenario - Gove", "Brexit: Gove won't commit to abide by law to block no deal", "Labour MP Chris Bryant is backed by senior Tories including Michael Gove to succeed John Bercow as Speaker", "The ITV election debate: your complete guide to Johnson v Corbyn", "Conservatives and Channel 4 clash after Michael Gove turned away from climate debate", "Government reshuffle February 2020: live blog", "Michael Gove forced to clarify lockdown rules on children with separated families after confusion", "Coronavirus: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive", "Michael Gove self-isolating after family member shows mild coronavirus symptoms", "What's on Michael Gove's bookshelf? [184] In a COBR meeting he chaired on 24 November 2020, he agreed, with the leaders of the UK's devolved governments, to a set of rules governing social mixing for the whole of the country over the Christmas period. [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. [91] He was praised in December 2015 for scrapping the courts fee introduced by his predecessor, Chris Grayling. [261] Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg criticised the idea, calling it "a case of the haves and the have yachts". After he joined the Gove family, Logan's name was changed to Michael Andrew Gove. lord and lady masham felicity and mark. In particular, Lynn identified Gove's resistance to new skyscrapers in London, his changes to the rules concerning the rental sector to make it harder for landlords to evict tenants, and his opposition to a fracking trial as damaging the economic growth prospects for the UK. [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. [253] Jeremy Paxman said Gove had "wilfully misquoted" Evans on the subject of the First World War. 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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. During his early career, he worked the Sussex theatre scene under the names 'Michael White' and 'Michael Scott'. I have, therefore, decided to put my name forward for the leadership. 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. [113], Gove said: "I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future. [218] He endorsed Sunak's leadership bid. [169] That month, an official Cabinet Yellowhammer document leaked, predicting that a no-deal Brexit would lead to food, medicine and petrol shortages. [207] He later announced the Homes for Ukraine scheme, which would arrange for British households to take in Ukrainian refugees. [213] He endorsed Kemi Badenoch's leadership bid and, after her defeat,[214] announced his support for Rishi Sunak. Cloudflare Ray ID: 78b7c365ce1ea1f0 [21] During his first year,[22] he met future Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ran his campaign to be President of the Oxford Union. , I know he did '' seen the UK break international law told a BBC documentary that ``! That could have seen the UK break international law name was changed to Michael Gove... 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