All news on the topic: Michael Gove

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Tory-run areas more likely to get new schools than Labour ones amid RAAC crisis
Nearly three quarters -72% - of new-build schools due to open by 2030 are in the constituencies of Tory MPs while sites in Labour seats are left to crumble
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Warning that more local councils will go bankrupt despite £500million bailout
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove announced £500million in emergency funding for local councils for social care, but critics dismissed it as a 'sticking plaster'
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'2024 is the Year of Democracy - and Tory big beasts are ripe for the cull'
If the opinion polls stay roughly the way they are, the Tory vote will be decimated and the big beasts with the small majorities will face televised shaming, says Brian Reade
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Landlords face crackdown over dangerous damp and mould under Awaab's Law
The Housing Secretary Michael Gove said the law will force landlords to fix homes 'within strict new time limits and take immediate action to tackle dangerous damp and mould to help prevent future tragedies'
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Tories plot tax cut for wealthy and much-needed help for first-time buyers
The PM is considering scrapping inheritance tax for the richest families in a bid to turn voters to his party, while Michael Gove has said there could be help for first-time buyers
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Esther Rantzen's desperate appeal to MPs as she joins Dignitas
Veteran journalist and presenter Dame Esther Rantzen, 83, urged parliamentarians to think of the elderly people in their lives and whether they'd want them to spend their final days in agony or to offer them a "gentle, peaceful death"
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Gove breaks silence on Michelle Mone PPE probe after being dragged into row
Top Tory Michael Gove confirmed he had cooperated with the National Crime Agency (NCA) probe into the scandal around PPE Medpro, which was awarded Government contracts for face masks and gowns worth more than £200million
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Michael Gove backs Esther Rantzen's call for Commons vote on assisted dying
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he was 'not yet persuaded' of the case for assisted dying - but said it was 'appropriate for the Commons to revisit this'
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Fury as Michael Gove snubs emergency council cash plea amid bankruptcy fears
The Government has announced a 6.5% rise rise in council cash next year, but local authority bosses warn this isn't enough after Nottingham City City became the eight to declare itself bankrupt since 2018
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Gove dragged into Michelle Mone PPE row as she describes his 'amazing' reaction
In a brutal interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Baroness Michelle Mone finally admitted to not telling the truth over her links to the firm PPE Medpro but maintained she has 'no case to answer'
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Michelle Mone admits she did mislead Mirror over £200million PPE scandal
Baroness Mone has admitted regret to misleading the Mirror over her role in the PPE Medpro scandal, saying she regrets 'not saying to the press straight away' her involvement
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Michael Gove given £320k three-year contract for limo to drive him round
The “executive car service” - unusually supplied by a private company - guaranteed Mr Gove a top of the line Jaguar XJL saloon car and his own dedicated driver
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Dozens of councils to learn whether they'll have to declare bankruptcy in weeks
This month will see the government set out its proposed councils funding plan for next year, which MPs will vote through before Christmas
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Covid Inquiry latest - Michael Gove wrote 'we're f***ing up' in brutal WhatsApps
Michael Gove, who was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the pandemic, is giving evidence at the Covid Inquiry. He chaired key meetings of ministers during the pandemic
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Tories fail to hit election manifesto promise to build 300,000 new homes - again
The Tories promised to build 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s. But the target has never been met and there have been warnings the number could plummet next year
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Michael Gove warned UK was 'f***ing up' in stark WhatsApp, Covid Inquiry told
Senior Tory Michael Gove apologised to families who lost loved ones for the mistakes made during the Covid pandemic as messages from Dominic Cummings were shown to the Covid Inquiry
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Furious Burnham tells Covid Inquiry Hancock knew tier rules 'wouldn't work'
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham also accused ministers of 'behaving appallingly' as he gave evidence to the Covid Inquiry along with Sadiq Khan and Steve Rotheram
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'Taxpayers deserve to know truth over Michelle Mone £200million Covid contracts'
Tory peer Michelle Mone acknowledged this month she was involved with the company PPE Medpro, writes the Voice of the Mirror
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Michael Gove and Matt Hancock questioned by 'Britain's FBI' on Michelle Mone row
Former lingerie tycoon Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman came under scrutiny after concerns were raised about her alleged failure to declare financial interests in PPE Medpro
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Date set for former Health Secretary Matt Hancock's grilling at Covid Inquiry
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock will appear at the Covid Inquiry next week alongside the ex-Deputy PM Dominic Raab and a host of city mayors including Andy Burnham
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Plans for 300ft sphere venue near homes rejected as it would disturb locals
Sadiq Khan has rejected plans for a London version of the Las Vegas MSG Sphere due to the "unacceptable" impact it would have on local residents, but the final decision rests with Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove
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Levelling up funding announced as hundreds of towns left with nothing - see list
Fifty-five projects across the UK were awarded a share of nearly £1billion but Labour criticised ministers for failing to explain what will happen to unsuccessful areas
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Tory civil war looms as rebel MPs vow to raise hell over Cameron and Braverman
Supporters of ousted Home Secretary Suella Braverman have threatened to "raise hell", while the appointment of David Cameron has left MPs "agog and angry" amid fresh WhatsApp plotting by rebels
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Nadine Dorries asks if Michael Gove was 'playing to the gallery' by being mobbed
In an extraordinary broadside at her former cabinet colleague, Nadine Dorries told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that any "sensible" politician wouldn't have been at Victoria Station
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'I’ve read Dorries's book. It should be on fiction shelves alongside her novels'
'People deserve to know the truth,' screams a blurb on the back of the book. They do. We do. Unfortunately these 336 pages don’t provide it. Oh no.'