Known as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government until 19 September 2021. lord and lady masham felicity and mark. [166], 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". "[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. [117], On 14 July 2016 Gove was dismissed by the prime minister, Theresa May. 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. British politician, MichaelGove's name was changed when he was adopted at just four months old. [b] He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2005. Once your shop is open, you can change your shop name in Info & Appearance up to five times. [269][bettersourceneeded], Gove met the journalist Sarah Vine in 1998, when he was comment editor and she was arts editor at The Times. [4][5] His biological mother, whom he originally believed to have been an unmarried Edinburgh student, was in fact a 23-year-old cookery demonstrator. Education Secretary Michael Gove speaks to the BETT conference about how technology and computing are changing education. [173] He offered to stand in for Johnson during a Channel 4 debate on environmental issues but the editor of Channel 4 News said the debate was only open to party leaders. [43] He wrote a sympathetic biography of Michael Portillo and a highly critical study of the Northern Ireland peace process (The Price of Peace), where he compared the Good Friday Agreement to appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s. It was angry but not fanatical, passionate but not somber, and intellectual but simply put". Allies confirmed the levelling up secretary had been dismissed after a. [151], On 26 May 2019, Gove announced he would stand for the Conservative leadership following May's resignation, becoming the eighth candidate to enter the contest. Why did Michael Gove change his name? Gove sold the house and began to commute to his constituency. Information about a multinational project carried out under Arbre-Mobieu Action, . The position came with a 30,000 pay cut, and a specific media role saw Gove on television and radio "more than a traditional Chief Whip would be". [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. 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. I have, therefore, decided to put my name forward for the leadership. [211][23] A Downing Street source described him as a "snake" following the sacking. Because of Isis. [163][164] Gove was excluded from a place on the National Security Council committee as Johnson pursued a slimming down of Cabinet operations. Most education secretaries either promote structural reform or. [198][199] Within days his department was renamed the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and his title changed to Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. That wasn't the message of the campaign I helped lead. When he was born, Michael Gove was named Graeme Andrew Logan. Clegg told a BBC documentary that Gove "obviously communicated it well, I know he did". [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. In February 2003, Gove expressed admiration for New Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair because of the way he was handling the crisis in Iraq: "As a right-wing polemicist, all I can say looking at Mr Blair now is, what's not to like?" However, it appears the strain of a dual-identity has got too . After he joined the Gove family, Logan's name was changed to Michael Andrew Gove. I don't know where you can find a similar situation in any other developed economy. I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. [143] One of the "toughest worldwide bans" on ivory trade was also introduced in 2018. [26], After university, when applying for a job at the Conservative Research Department, he was told he was "insufficiently political" and "insufficiently Conservative", so he turned to journalism. I. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Instead he urged people to listen to Margaret MacMillan of Oxford University. [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. Mai 2022 . Michael Gove was sacked by Boris Johnson on Wednesday evening after telling the prime minister to quit earlier in the day. 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. "[250][251], Some of Gove's key points were rebuffed by the academics that Gove had used to support his thesis. [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. Related Posts: Can I change my Etsy shop name? [67], In March 2011, Gove was criticised for not understanding the importance of school architecture and accused of having misrepresented the cost. [55] 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. [27], Gove first found employment on the Peterborough column of The Daily Telegraph, after passing an interview with Max Hastings. [213] He endorsed Kemi Badenoch's leadership bid and, after her defeat,[214] announced his support for Rishi Sunak. [208], Gove attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting in Washington, D.C.[209], 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". [147], In March 2019, Gove argued that "we didn't vote to leave without a deal. 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[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. He was adopted by a couple in Aberdeen called Ernest Gove and Christine Gove who raised him since then. [162] His otherwise non-portfolio role included responsibility for no-deal Brexit preparations, overseeing constitutional affairs, maintaining the integrity of the Union and having oversight over all Cabinet Office policy. [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. [89] He missed his first House of Commons vote in the new role, as explained by Shadow Commons Leader Angela Eagle; "Gove not only lost his first vote but managed to get stuck in the toilet in the wrong lobby". [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. [156] In June, reports emerged that Gove had taken cocaine as a journalist in his twenties. [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". 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[102] Despite this, Gove decided to support the Leave campaign. His wife Sarah Vine (somewhat inaccurately)[240] complained in her Daily Mail column that he could not have his foot X-rayed by the NHS because the minor injuries unit the couple visited did not provide the facility at weekends. [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. In July 2010, Gove said that Labour had failed in their attempt to break the link between social class and school achievement despite spending billions of pounds: quoting research, he indicated that by the age of six years, children of low ability from affluent homes were still out-performing brighter children from poorer backgrounds. [246], Gove is, like the great majority of UK Conservative Party MPs, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel. [68] In February 2011, he had told Parliament that one individual had made 1,000,000 in one year when the true figure was 700,000 for five advisers at different times over a four-year period. [201][202], In December 2021, Gove was part of a trio of Cabinet ministers that self-isolated after meeting Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who was later diagnosed with COVID-19. Another ban came in June 2018 which stopped shops from selling products that contained the beads. [165] He became a central figure in the conduction of Operation Yellowhammer, the civil contingency planning for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit. [207] He later announced the Homes for Ukraine scheme, which would arrange for British households to take in Ukrainian refugees. [133], In July 2017, Gove announced that a fuel combustion vehicle ban will be put into place due to air pollution. [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". The Tory Leadership Mystery: Why Did Michael Gove Betray . Caine joins a long list of actors who adopted a new name when pursuing their career. Gove said the figure was robust and it was up to the Government to decide how to spend it. [59] 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. "[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. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. He then began a career as a journalist at The Press and Journal before having a long tenure as a leader writer at The Times. [268] He was voiced by Lewis MacLeod. [205] It was reported that parts of it had been copied from Wikipedia. Children who failed to write coherently and grammatically, or who were weak in spelling, were penalised in the new examinations. [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. Rumours that Gove was going to be appearing on Strictly proved unfounded, despite demonstrating his prowess in the commercial/street dance genre. [169] That month, an official Cabinet Yellowhammer document leaked, predicting that a no-deal Brexit would lead to food, medicine and petrol shortages. [281], Gove is a supporter of Queens Park Rangers Football Club. He said that the ban would take effect by 2040 and end the sales of new fuel combustion cars, trucks, vans, and buses that have petrol and diesel engines in the UK. [184] He was chair of the COVID-19 operations subcommittee. 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. [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. Here's a clip from the show, written by the brilliant @bronactitley, with the incredible vocal talents of @lewismacleod & @indyv9", "Michael Gove and wife Sarah Vine 'finalising their divorce', "Summer holidays with Michael Gove are 'complete nightmare' says wife Sarah Vine", "Michael Gove and wife Sarah Vine to divorce after 'drifting apart', "Why 'snake' Michael Gove won't be invited back to No 10 any time soon", "Michael Gove is the latest celebrity victim of swine flu", "Diary: Match of the day? 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