Michael Andrew Gove is a British politician and former journalist. He has been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 2019. Gove played a major role in the UK’s referendum on EU membership as the co-convenor of Vote Leave. He ran for the Conservative leadership in 2019 but came third.
About Michael Gove in brief
Michael Andrew Gove is a British politician and former journalist. He has been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 2019 and Minister for the Cabinet Office since 2020. Born in Aberdeen, Gove was in care until being adopted aged four months old. He attended the independent Robert Gordon’s College and studied English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He then began a career as a journalist at The Press and Journal before having a long tenure as lead writer at The Times. Elected for Surrey Heath at the 2005 general election, he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet by David Cameron in 2007. Appointed Secretary of State for Education in the Cameron–Clegg coalition, he terminated the previous Labour government’s Building Schools for the Future programme. He was promoted to Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor following the 2015 general election and the formation of the majority Cameron government. Gove played a major role in the UK’s referendum on EU membership as the co-convenor of Vote Leave. He launched a second Conservative leadership bid in 2019 although eventually came third behind Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. In an interview with Andrew Gimson Gove remarked that Johnson was ‘quite the most brilliant extempore speaker of his generation’. In October 2012, he wrote an apology letter to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class in 2012. During his first year at Oxford, he met future Prime Minister Boris Johnson and helped him become elected President of the Oxford Union.
He joined The Times in 1996 as a news editor and assumed comment posts as a writer and comment leader. He became a trainee trainee reporter in 1989, where he spent several months on strike in 1989–1990 over a dispute over union representation. He is the son of a former school teacher and a former headmistress of St John’s School, Aberdeen. He married his long-term partner, the former Joanne Gove, in 2010. He had a son, Michael, in 2011, and has a daughter, Charlotte, with whom he has two step-grandchildren. He also has a step-daughter, Charlotte Gove. He served as Education Secretary from 2010 to 2014, Chief Whip from 2014 to 2015, Justice Secretary from 2015 to 2016 and Environment Secretary from 2017 to 2019. In June 2016, he withdrew his support on the morning Johnson was due to declare, and announced his own candidacy in the leadership election, finishing third behind Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom. Following May’S appointment as Prime Minister he was sacked from the Cabinet but wasappointed to the second May government as Environment Secretary following the 2017 general election. In January 2018, he became the Minister for Cabinet Office in the cabinet reshuffle post-Brexit. In May 2018, Goves was appointed Chancellor of Duchies of Lancaster, with responsibilities including preparations for a no-deal Brexit. He was seen as one of the most prominent figures of the Vote Leave campaign. He ran for the Conservative leadership in 2019 but came third.
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