All news on the topic: Michael Gove

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Laughing gas to be banned, Tory minister Michael Gove announces
The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, who has admitted to taking the class A drug cocaine, was challenged on his own drug use after the announcement. He could not confirm what drugs class laughing gas would be categorised as
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Social media ads launched to urge tenants to complain about poor social housing
The campaign comes after the tragic death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, who died in December 2020 from a respiratory condition caused by mould in his home
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'Michael Gove's absurd plan to punish struggling parents is cruel and divisive'
Mirror columnist Eva Simpson hits out at Michael Gove's disgraceful idea to take away benefits from already struggling parents if their child plays truant from school
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Docking benefits of parents and carers if pupils truant is wholly unfair
Scapegoating parents and carers, often at the end of their tether when children are going off the rails, is not the answer - it would just make life worse for the households affected
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Parents of truanting children should have benefits docked, says Michael Gove
Tory Cabinet minister Michael Gove warned the government could revive plans to penalise families, but teaching unions said targeting benefit payments would just end up hurting children
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Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham demand private rent freezes to support millions
The London and Manchester mayors have joined Green Party leaders and union bosses including Mick Lynch in calling for Michael Gove to bring in a Scotland-style freeze on rents
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Michael Gove stuns partygoers by hitting dancefloor in Aberdeen nightclub
The Levelling Up Secretary was spotted grooving to Donna Summer's hit 'I Feel Love' at Club Tropicana in the early hours of the morning at the weekend on another solo night out in Aberdeen
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Brexit 'failings' discussed at cross-party talks with minister Michael Gove
The summit was held at Ditchley Park country house and was attended by both Leave and Remain figures and Labour's shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy, reports say
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Labour demands Whitehall keep out of local issues like tarting up bus shelters
Yet the Government’s nosy parkers even insist councils get their go-ahead to scrape chewing gum off the streets
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Crackdown on poor social housing named Awaab's Law after toddler death
The father of young Awaab Ishak - who died after living in a mould-infested flat - hailed plans to change the law and said public support 'stopped us feeling alone during this hard time'
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Rishi Sunak and 10 ministers receive nearly £300,000 from oil and gas firms
The revelation came in the week it was announced Shell more than doubled its annual profit to £32billion – its biggest result ever - and sparked calls for an increase in taxes on energy giants
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Firefighter used selfie in front of smouldering Grenfell Tower on Tinder profile
The London Fire Brigade worker is said to have taken the picture "in the immediate aftermath" of the tragedy which killed 72 people, including 18 children, in 2017
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Yvette Cooper tells Suella Braverman 'I don't know what you do'
The shadow Home Secretary urged her Tory counterpart to 'get out of the way and let somebody else do the job' as she lashed out over the government's crime failings
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Thousands of kids living in damp, mouldy and infested homes, Sadiq Khan warns
According to an anlaysis by City Hall over 1.8million children were forced to living in poor quality homes in 2019-2020 - leading the London Mayor to call for emergency action from Government ministers
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Michael Gove accused of watering down post-Grenfell housing safety contract
Labour's Lisa Nandy today said that too little had been done to address safety concerns affecting millions in the five-and-a-half years since the Grenfell Tower tragedy
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1 in 10 Ministry of Justice staff have 'experienced bullying or harassment'
According to the annual Civil Service People Survey 11% of MoJ staff warned that they had experienced bullying, harassment or discrimination - significantly higher than an average across the Civil Service of 7%
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Gove admits 'faulty' Government guidance partly to blame for Grenfell tragedy
The Housing Secretary's comments come over five years after the fire at the residential tower block in North Kensington, west London, in June 2017 killed 72 people and triggered a public inquiry
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'Zara Aleena died even if she sought help - probation services are in crisis'
Saira Khan says the fact that Zara Aleena was murdered even though she sought help and support from the authorities makes her question the effectiveness of the systems set up to protect us
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Michael Gove appears to brand North 'defence full of holes' in Messi analogy
The Levelling Up Secretary admitted that wealth, influence, high-wage jobs and high quality schools are concentrated in the South East, after a damning report lifted the lid on the north-south divide
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£140,000-a-year levelling up directors could be scrapped amid cash waste anger
The 12 positions were advertised by Michael Gove's department last year - but minister Dehenna Davison today told a cross-party committee that this is now under review
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'Awaab Ishak's death could have changed things but the rot goes far deep'
In December 2020, a two-year-old boy died after he was left struggling to breathe when his throat became swollen and his lungs filled with poisonous mould but so many children are still living in the same conditions
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Children breathe in mould covering homes in Housing Minister 's constituency
Several families on one street are living in homes that have turned green on the outside and have mould festering inside as they fear for their lives
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Landlords face new crackdown rules on mould after death of Awaab Ishak
Michael Gove and Steve Barclay set out five areas of concern ahead of a review of rules to protect renters
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Rishi Sunak took tax-funded private jet to launch 'green' tax breaks in Scotland
The gas-guzzling 888-mile round trip on a luxury RAF Falcon 900 LX would have released around 4.2 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere