Michael Gove

Michael Gove (2013)

Michael Andrew Gove (born August 26, 1967 in Edinburgh , Scotland ) is a British Conservative Party politician and former journalist . He was from May 2010 to July 2014 Minister of Education ( "Secretary of State for Education"), from May 2015 to June 2016 Lord Chancellor and Minister of Justice ( "the Secretary of State for Justice") and was since June 2017 Environmental and Food Minister ( "Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs "). In Boris Johnson's cabinet , he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and State Secretary for Cabinet Affairs on July 24, 2019, and is thus also Vice Prime Minister. In the cabinet he is also responsible for the government's no-deal Brexit planning.

biography

The adopted son of a businessman from the fishing industry and a teacher studied after attending state and independent schools and the Robert Gordon's College 1985-1988 English Studies at the Lady Margaret Hall of the University of Oxford , where he is also president of the " Oxford Union was". In 1993 he was chief juror of the " World Universities Debating Championship ", an international student debating competition .

After completing his studies, Gove, originally a supporter and activist of the Labor Party , worked as a journalist and was appointed columnist for the daily newspaper The Times in 1996 by the publisher Sir Peter Stothard .

During this time he and Frances Lawrence, the widow of a murdered school principal, initiated a campaign to fight street crime and its causes. The campaign influenced legislation banning combat knives and resulted in the establishment of an award for exemplary youthful citizens.

His actual political career began in the May 2005 elections when he was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons , in which he has since represented the constituency of Surrey Heath .

In December 2005 he was appointed to the conservative shadow cabinet , where he was initially the " shadow minister " for housing and then from June 2007 to May 2010 for children, schools and families.

After the Conservatives won the 2010 general election , he was appointed Minister of Education in his first cabinet by Prime Minister David Cameron on May 12, 2010 . Gove was a representative of the traditional teaching methods such as ED Hirsch in his book 1999 The Schools We Need and Why We Do not Have Them ( The schools that we need and why we have not ) describes.

In July 2014, Gove was replaced by Nicky Morgan in a major cabinet reshuffle . Gove then took over the position of "Chief Whip" .

Within the Conservative Party he belongs to the EU skeptics and was among the minority of conservative MPs and cabinet ministers who oppose the political line Prime Minister Cameron for a vote for the withdrawal from the EU at the referendum on the future EU membership of the United Kingdom spoke out . In the last few weeks before the decisive vote in June 2016, he was one of the most committed public representatives of the “ Brexit ” concept and was seen in numerous public debates.

Michael Gove was no longer a member of Prime Minister May's first government cabinet . Gove's previous friendly relations with David Cameron have practically no longer existed since the EU exit referendum. He was appointed Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Areas in Prime Minister May's second cabinet .

Applications for party chairmanship and prime ministerial positions

After those in favor of leaving the EU were victorious in the referendum, he was seen as one of the candidates for the future chairmanship of the Conservative Party, succeeding David Cameron. On June 30, 2016, Gove announced, in a surprising twist, his candidacy for the party chairmanship, after previously supporting Boris Johnson and denying his own intentions to run. His rivals were Home Secretary Theresa May , Labor and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb , Secretary of State for Energy Andrea Leadsom and former Secretary of Defense Liam Fox . On July 7, 2016, Gove was defeated by his remaining competitors May and Leadsom in the second round of the election and was therefore eliminated from the race of candidates.

In the new election triggered by Theresa May's resignation as party leader in spring 2019, Gove reapplied for this post, but retired in the last round of the preliminary round of the House of Commons on June 20 . The decision was ultimately made in a ballot between all party members between Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson, in favor of Johnson.

Web links

Commons : Michael Gove  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael Gove's website
• Website of the "Conservative Party"
• Michael Gove in the MPs monitor They Work For You
• Article in The Guardian
• The New Statesman: NS Profile: Michael Gove (September 6, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography: The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP gov.co.uk (English)
2. ↑ Sascha Zastiral: Supply bottlenecks in the event of a hard Brexit: Ooops . In: Spiegel Online . August 19, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 19, 2019]).
3. ↑ Simon Johnson: Teenage Michael Gove supports Labor. The Telegraph , May 16, 2010, accessed July 7, 2016.
4. ↑ BBC News: Gove is named Education Secretary (May 12, 2010).
5. ↑ ED Hirsch: The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them . Anchor Verlag 1999, ISBN 978-0385495240
6. ↑ Excerpt from The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (English)
7. ↑ Michael Gove moved to Chief Whip in Cabinet reshuffle on BBC News July 15, 2014, accessed July 15, 2014.
8. ↑ Michael Gove says backing UK leaving the EU is 'optimist's choice'. BBC News, February 24, 2016, accessed March 8, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Michael Gove - 'EU: In Or Out?' YouTube, June 3, 2016, accessed June 20, 2016 (discussion with Michael Gove on skynews). 
10. ↑ Michael Gove Responds To Brexit Criticism From Stephen Hawking. YouTube, May 30, 2016, accessed June 20, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Theresa May's cabinet: Who's in and who's out? BBC News, July 14, 2016, accessed July 14, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Gove: Friendship with Camerons 'strained' over Brexit. BBC News, December 10, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Conservative leader: Who might succeed David Cameron? BBC News, June 28, 2016, accessed June 28, 2016 . 
14. ^ Michael Gove to stand for Conservative leadership. BBC News, June 30, 2016, accessed June 30, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Great Britain: Theresa May wants to become the new Prime Minister. Spiegel Online, June 30, 2016, accessed on the same day
16. ↑ Conservative leader: Who might succeed David Cameron? BBC News, June 30, 2016, accessed the same day
17. ^ Theresa May v Andrea Leadsom in Conservative leader race. BBC News, July 7, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016 . 
18. ↑ Jeremy Hunt fights Boris Johnson in the Tory primary election. Spiegel Online, June 20, 2019, accessed on the same day.
19. ^ Boris Johnson elected as Leader of the Conservative Party. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .