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Michael Gove

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Also known as Michael Andrew Gove, Graeme Andrew Logan, Baron Gove, Lord Gove

British politician (born 1967)

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • The price of peace
  • Celsius 77
  • Bolingbroke
  • A blue tomorrow
  • Seeking Gaddafi

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States

Discography

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Listeners
52
Total plays
86

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Quotes

  • It may be moral to keep an empire because the fuzzy-wuzzies can't look after themselves.It may be immoral to keep an empire because the people of the third world have an inalienable right to self-determination, but that doesn't matter whether it's moral or immoral.
  • We are at last experiencing a new empire: an empire where the happy south stamps over the cruel, dirty, toothless face of the northerner.At last Mrs Thatcher is saying I don't give a fig for what half of the population say because the richer half will keep me in power. This may be amoral, this may be immoral, but it's politics and it's pragmatism.
  • The Government is about to introduce a new test for those considering a university career. The central question will be punishingly direct. Do you want to run up a debt of £21,000 in order to go to the best British universities? Some people will, apparently, be put off applying to our elite institutions by the prospect of taking on a debt of this size. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is all to the good.
  • There are lots of other folk, including in the Cabinet who could easily be prime minister, I am not one of them. I could not be prime minister, I am not equipped to be prime minister, I don’t want to be prime minister.
  • 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 a courage that you need. There are some things in life you know it's better not to try.
  • The day after we vote to leave we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want.

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Key facts

Prime minister
Rishi Sunak
Preceded by
Simon Clarke
Succeeded by
Angela Rayner
Leader
David Cameron

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Encyclopedic overview

Personal details BornGraeme Andrew Logan (1967-08-26) 26 August 1967 58) Aberdeen, Scotland

PartyConservative Other political affiliations Labour (1983) Spouse

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Gove” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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