[119], In the aftermath of the EU referendum, Gove was accused by Nick Clegg of being the source of a claim by The Sun that Queen Elizabeth II made comments supportive of Brexit in a private lunch at Windsor Castle. Michael Gove's daughter went to today's school strike climate change protest. [272][bettersourceneeded], Gove met the journalist Sarah Vine in 1998, when he was comment editor and she was arts editor at The Times. 9. Michael Gove 's daughter was tested for coronavirus so that he could 'get back to work' in his 'central role' in the battle against the pandemic, Downing Street said today. William Gove, her younger brother, was born in 2004. Beatrice is now being vocal about the fact that Michael Gove is her father. In the last ballot, he had 75 votes and was voted out losing by only two to Hunt, the eventual runner-up. One featured the text: Me in year 9 when teachers kept indirecting me for my dad changing the gcses, Another caption reads: God really made me bis3xual, alt, m3ntally ill, liberal and gave me a tory cabinet minister for a father n said make it work., In other news, find out how to watch Instagram live on Mac and other laptops, TikToks latest trend is dangerously dumb. 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He launched a second Conservative leadership bid in 2019, coming third behind Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. [202][203], 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. [158][159] Gove stated that he regretted having done so, and regarded it as having been a mistake. No 10 defends coronavirus test for Michael Gove's daughter Senior minister was self-isolating after his daughter showed Covid-19 symptoms Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this article As a result, he joined the Labour party in 1983. [109], In his memoir For the Record, Cameron described Gove during this period as "mendacious", adding: "One quality shone through, disloyalty. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2005. [44] 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. There are some things in life you know it's better not to try. Thankfully she tested negative. Speaking at the Onward centre-right think [65], 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. Thus, Gove heard and learned about politics from his household. "Michaels daughter was at the party too and seemed less than impressed." But he was photographed running in a south London park on Easter Sunday, raising questions about whether he was obeying NHS guidance that anyone self-isolating should only exercise at [153] He promised to remove the charge for UK citizenship applications from EU nationals if elected,[154] and to replace VAT with a "simpler sales tax". Beatrice is their daughter, and William is their son. WebMichael Andrew Gove (/ o v /; born Graeme Andrew Logan, 26 August 1967) is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations since 2021. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2005. Victoria Aitken, daughter of the disgraced former Tory Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Aitken, threatened to sue a successful VIP PPE bidder for commission after she had referred it into the VIP lane. Sky News reported that the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, advised that the Tory politicians daughter should be tested after Gove announced that he was going into self-isolation on account of Beatrice exhibiting symptoms. "[253][254], Some of Gove's key points were rebuffed by the academics that Gove had used to support his thesis. [267][268], Gove was portrayed by actor Oliver Maltman in the 2019 HBO and Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War. [175], On 13 February 2020, Gove took on additional responsibilities as Minister for the Cabinet Office, succeeding Oliver Dowden, who had been appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in Johnson's first large reshuffle of his government. [126], In December 2016, Gove defended a Vote Leave claim that an additional 350million a week could be spent on the NHS when Britain left the EU. [98] On 14 July 2016 Gove was removed from the position of justice secretary by the new prime minister, Theresa May. Michael Gove 's daughter was tested for coronavirus so that he could 'get back to work' in his 'central role' in the battle against the pandemic, Downing Street said today. Last week, Michael Gove announced that he was entering isolation given that his 17-year-old daughter Beatrice had displayed symptoms of Covid-19. [249], Gove is, like the great majority of UK Conservative Party MPs, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel. [214] He endorsed Kemi Badenoch's leadership bid and, after her defeat,[215] announced his support for Rishi Sunak. "We think of her today, as we do every day," he wrote. Thus, Gove heard and learned about politics from his household. 9. Beatrice is their daughter, and William is their son. Gove was subsequently photographed out running on Easter Sunday, leading to the disclosure that Beatrice had been tested and her results had come back negative. Besides that, he shares 2 children with Sarah. [174] 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. [152], 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. The liberation of Iraq has actually been that rarest of thingsa proper British foreign policy success. Parents who let their children play truant could be stripped of benefits under a post-Covid schools drive. Michael Gove 's daughter was tested for coronavirus so that he could 'get back to work' in his 'central role' in the battle against the pandemic, Downing Street said today. In Beatrices TikTok bio, it reads: Honestly its getting tiresome now 4th account going strong., She currently has 24,000 followers and has slightly changed her content. [80] The next month the National Union of Teachers passed a vote of no confidence in Gove at their annual conference and called for his resignation. [64] He apologised, however, when the list of terminated school-building projects he had released was found to be inaccurate; the list was reannounced several times before it was finally accurately published. [38][39] He broke the news of the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election thanks to his connections with the upper echelons of the party. [287], Gove won the "Rising Star Award" at the February 2006 Channel 4 political awards,[289] the "Minister of the Year" award at the 2011 Spectator awards,[290] and the "Minister to watch" award at the January 2020 Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards. [22] During his first year,[23] he met future Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ran his campaign to be President of the Oxford Union. [166] He became a central figure in the conduction of Operation Yellowhammer, the civil contingency planning for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit. She is 1.55m tall and has a healthy body weight, which complements her personality. [286], In August 2021, Gove was filmed dancing "merrily" in an Aberdeen nightclub. In a move that surprised most political analysts, Gove withdrew his support for Johnson on 30 June 2016, hours before the deadline, without any previous notice to Johnson and announced his own candidacy in the leadership election. Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove and his journalist wife Sarah Vine have "agreed to separate", a joint spokesman for the couple has said. "[227], During the 2008 Conservative Party Conference, Gove argued that Edmund Burke, an 18th-century philosopher who commented on organic society and the French Revolution, was the greatest conservative ever. [179], In May 2020, Gove was criticised[180][bettersourceneeded] after his wife Sarah Vine shared a bookcase picture "as a very special treat for my trolls" which featured a book by the Holocaust denier David Irving, and a copy of The Bell Curve, which controversially claims that intelligence is highly heritable and that median IQ varies among races. Gove said he would repay the claim for the cot mattress, but maintained that his other claims were "below the acceptable threshold costs for furniture" and that moving house was necessary "to effectively discharge my parliamentary duties". Michael also has a sister named Angela. But he was photographed running in a south London park on Easter Sunday, raising questions about whether he was obeying NHS guidance that anyone self-isolating should only exercise at Upon appointment of Johnson as Prime Minister, Gove was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with responsibilities including preparations for a no-deal Brexit. [185] In a COBR meeting he chaired on 24 November 2020, he agreed, with the leaders of the UK's devolved governments, to a set of rules governing social mixing for the whole of the country over the Christmas period. Beatrice Gove, Michael and Sarahs daughter, is a British TikTok star. [199][200] 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. [67], 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. [132] Gove said he "was quite surprised" to be asked to join the cabinet after May dismissed him in 2016 after she became Prime Minister. 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