Michael Gove Biography
Michael Gove full names (Michael Andrew Gove) is a British politician of the Conservative Party who was Secretary of State for Education from 2010 to 2014 and Secretary of State for Justice from 2015 to 2016. He became Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the cabinet reshuffle on 11 June 2017. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2005. He is also an author and a columnist for The Times.
Born in Edinburgh, Gove was raised in Aberdeen and attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he took a BA in English, graduating with an upper second, after which he began his career as a journalist. He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2005 election for the safe Conservative seat of Surrey Heath. He was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet by David Cameron in 2007 as Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools, and Families.
Michael Gove Age
Michael was born on August 26, 1967, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He is 51 years old as of 2018.
Michael Gove Wife
Michael is married to Sarah Vine who is a British columnist, formerly for The Times. In 2013, she became a columnist for the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail. Her detailed accounts of her personal life have been controversial, with Private Eye satirizing her as ‘Sarah Vain’ as a result. Her frank accounts of her personal issues of weight gain, hair loss, and the menopause have won her plaudits for their honesty.
Michael Gove Brexit
Gove goes out of his way to be publicly very supportive of the prime minister, but the environment secretary is always a controversial figure whether in or out of government. His attack on the possibility of chlorinated chicken being allowed into the U.K. as part of a post-Brexit U.S. trade deal caused an early Cabinet rift in the summer and distracted from Trade Secretary Liam Fox’s U.S. trip to drum up support for a trade link-up.
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Gove first entered the House of Commons after the 2005 general election having been elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath after the sitting Conservative MP Nick Hawkins was deselected by the local Conservative Association. When David Cameron was first elected as Leader of the Conservative Party in December 2005, he appointed Gove as Shadow Housing Spokesman. Gove is seen as part of an influential set of Conservatives, sometimes referred to as the Notting Hill Set.
On 2 July 2007, Gove was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families shadowing Ed Balls. 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.
In June 2012, Michael Portillo backed Gove to be a serious contender in a future race for the Conservative Party leadership, though Gove had said in an interview a few months before that “I’m constitutionally incapable of it. There’s a special extra quality you need that is indefinable, and I know I don’t have it. There’s an equanimity, an impermeability, and courage that you need. There are some things in life you know it’s better not to try.
Michael Gove Religion
Gove is a Christian and he is proud of it, he confessed this at a talk to pupils at Westminster School in 2012. Noting the singing of the “deliberately anti-Catholic rant”, the Famine Song at Rangers-Celtic matches, he credited Cardinal Keith O’Brien with using his intellect to protect the vulnerable in Scotland whilst regretting the absence of a similar figure in the Kirk.
Gove had plans to provide schools throughout England and Wales with a copy of the King James Bible to celebrate the 400th anniversary of its translation into English, though he said he backed the scheme because of the historical and cultural significance of that translation rather than on purely religious grounds.
In April 2015, Gove described his faith in an article for The Spectator magazine. In widely reported remarks, he complained that “to call yourself a Christian in contemporary Britain is to invite pity, condescension or cool dismissal.” In 2016, he credited his Christian faith for his focus as Justice Minister on redemption and rehabilitation.
Michael Gove Email
Parliamentary
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Tel: 020 7219 6804
Email: michael.gove.mp@parliament.uk
Michael Gove Prime Minister
On 30 June 2016, Gove, who was campaign manager for Boris Johnson’s drive to become Prime Minister, withdrew his support on the morning that Johnson was due to declare, and announced his own candidacy in the leadership election. In the first round of voting, Gove came third to Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom. He was eliminated from the leadership race on the second ballot on 7 July 2016. Following her appointment as Prime Minister, May did not appoint him to the Cabinet on 14 July 2016; however, he returned to the Cabinet following the 2017 General Election as Environment Secretary.
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