Michael Gove has done a double Brutus
With a perfunctory call very close to the press statement announcing his candidacy, Michael Gove has abruptly arrested and probably completely destroyed Boris Johnson’s chances of becoming PM.
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Former Cabinet minister Michael Gove and Tony Blair’s former director of communications, Alastair Campbell.
Former cabinet minister and Brexiteer, Michael Gove, and former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.
Interview with former Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, who’s now a member of parliament’s Brexit committee.
With a perfunctory call very close to the press statement announcing his candidacy, Michael Gove has abruptly arrested and probably completely destroyed Boris Johnson’s chances of becoming PM.
Two sides to his personality have long vied in Michael Gove’s political career: the free-thinker and the ambitious ally of George Osborne and David Cameron.
Michael Gove defends the prison reforms on Channel 4 News tonight and tries to sell them to inmates at The Mount prison outside Hemel Hempstead.
Not so much a prison, more a piece of prime real estate: the government has confirmed it’s considering selling off jails in inner city areas to fund modernisation plans.
As solicitors prepare for crisis talks with Michael Gove over cuts to legal aid fees, their ongoing work to rule is clogging up the legal system. And barristers are due to join the protest on Monday.
On the day the Conservatives launch their manifesto, the Tory chief whip tells Channel 4 News that money from council house sales will be used to build more homes and transform brownfield land.
Michael Gove remains convinced there will be no more defections to Ukip – and once again channels Catherine Tate, saying he’s “not bovvered” about losing the Rochester by-election.
Newly appointed Tory Chief Whip Michael Gove says he was offered the chance to stay on as education secretary. And he tells Channel 4 News he wants candidate shortlists based on talent, not gender.
Requiring schools to “promote British values” and introducing no-notice inspections, are just two of the measures Michael Gove wants to introduce to tackle extremism in schools.
Education Secretary Michael Gove apologises to the prime minister after his row with Theresa May over the “Trojan horse” school claims, despite earlier saying it was not damaging to the government.
Michael Gove is an “ideologically obsessed zealot” who pushed through £400m of cuts to funding for extra school places to help plug a financial black hole in the free schools project, it is claimed.
Once a Blair-loving Tory and Lib Dem fan, Michael Gove is now a zealot for traditional teaching. Is he “doing the right thing” or trying to impose on everyone an education that worked for him?