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Michael Gove
Information about this person was last updated on Tuesday, January 17, 2017.
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[-told]: Boris is doing a very good job indeed,
huffingtonpost 16-JAN-17
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[-has told]: special place in his heart
itv 16-JAN-17
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[added:]: I think the president-elect wants to see the Prime Minister as quickly as possible. He made it clear that almost as soon as he is in the White House, he wants to invite her over to talk.
icWales 16-JAN-17
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[said:]: He made clear that he wants a deal done quickly and well and properly. I think that that enthusiasm for doing it reflects not just his judgment about what's in America's economic interests, it also reflects his judgment about how Britain can best flourish outside the European Union.
icWales 16-JAN-17
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[-also said that]: signature-ready at the earliest possible opportunity.
WashingtonPost 16-JAN-17
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[said:]: I think Boris is doing a very good job indeed. One of the things that I was told while I was there is that the relationship that Boris had forged with members of the Trump team had been strong and they appreciated his combination of friendliness and candour.
independent 16-JAN-17
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[-said]: This is another card in the prime minister’s hand, another arrow in her quiver because the European Union until now has been assumed to have a better hand to play. But the prime minister we now see has actually cards in her hand,
WashingtonPost 16-JAN-17
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[said:]: yes
themirror 16-JAN-17
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[said:]: It is clear he is looking forward to meeting Theresa May, he had very warm words about her and about Britain generally.
thesun 16-JAN-17
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[-said]: This is another card in the prime minister's hand, another arrow in her quiver because the European Union until now has been assumed to have a better hand to play. But the prime minister we now see has actually cards in her hand,
nzherald 16-JAN-17
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[said:]: We need to deliver a full Brexit, not settle for fake Brexit.
express 13-JAN-17
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[ said]: He was a lovely chap,
msn 11-JAN-17
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[-said]: a vote for wholesale change.
politico 09-JAN-17
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[-has urge]: FAKE BREXIT
msn 09-JAN-17
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[said:]: Sometimes we’re invited to take experts as though they were prophets, as though their words were carved in tablets of stone and that we had to simply meekly bow down before them and accept their verdict.
msn 06-JAN-17
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[said:]: The UK has a prosperous future ahead of us if we leave the EU’s customs union and become a beacon of global free trade.
telegraph 03-JAN-17
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[said:]: This is fantastic news that the Government has secured these levels of investment. 'This is a real vote of confidence in Britain after our vote to leave the European Union. The prophets of doom have once again been found wanting. 'All the signs are that Britain can make a great success of life outside the European Union and these investors certainly believe in a great future for Britain.
dailymail 30-DEC-16
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[said:]: This is fantastic news that the government has secured these levels of investment.
telegraph 30-DEC-16
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[said:]: I think the right response in a democracy to assertions made by experts is to say ‘show us the evidence, show us the facts’.
TheScotsman 28-DEC-16
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[said:]: People have had enough of experts.
themirror 27-DEC-16
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[said:]: The case for leaving is positive and optimistic.
guardian 11-DEC-16
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[-said]: I had six years when I was a government minister, I had a chance to make a difference – I hope that I did. But nothing is forever in politics and having had the chance to serve, having had the chance to make a difference, I have to accept that the way in which I spent the final week or so of my ministerial life involved my making mistakes, and having made mistakes, you have to take the consequences.
msn 10-DEC-16
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[-said]: The way in which I declared my stand for the leadership, I shouldn’t have done it in that way. I know that I made mistakes so there’s no point in me complaining. I’ve got to bear the consequences of my own actions.
msn 10-DEC-16
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[-decline]: It was better to say to David that I couldn’t support him and to go with my heart than to suppress my feelings on the matter … he thought I would either keep schtum or say, ‘I am going to support the prime minister’.
msn 10-DEC-16
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[said:]: It was also a legitimate concern of some of those who voted Remain that by voting to leave the <name id=
express 08-DEC-16
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express 08-DEC-16
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[also said:]: Two of the legitimate concerns expressed beforehand - our economy would be damaged and our union would be damaged - the evidence is actually our economy is stronger and the union is more popular.
TheScotsman 07-DEC-16
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[added:]: It was also a legitimate concern of some of those who voted Remain that by voting to leave the European Union we’d do damage to the United Kingdom.
TheScotsman 07-DEC-16
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[added:]: It was also a legitimate concern of some of those who voted Remain that by voting to leave the European Union we'd do damage to the United Kingdom.
heraldscotland 07-DEC-16
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[added:]: It was also a legitimate concern of some of those who voted Remain that by voting to leave the European Union we'd do damage to the United Kingdom. 'The truth is, of course, since we voted to leave the European Union support for a second independence referendum has fallen, support for Scottish independence has fallen, support for the Scottish National Party and its secessionist sermonising has fallen, and the single most popular politician is Ruth Davidson - the only leader of any party that wants to embrac
mailonsunday 07-DEC-16
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[said:]: South Thanet is not a leafy suburb. It is one of the most deprived parts of the south east of England.
dailyecho 02-DEC-16
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[said:]: The truth is that the Chilcot report makes clear that at no stage was there a deliberate attempt to mislead this House by Tony Blair.
piratefm 01-DEC-16
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[said:]: Four million people voted for him at the last general election, he's someone who, even though I may disagree with him on some issues, should be respected and not abused.
dailymail 28-NOV-16
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[said:]: I'm open to the case for a transitional agreement but I'm not convinced we need one. Again, there is a tendency to over-complicate this process.
wandsworthguardian 27-NOV-16
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[said:]: One I do
themirror 27-NOV-16
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[replied:]: That in a way is precisely my concern, that there is always a tendency to overcomplicate what can be a simplified process.
express 16-NOV-16
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[-said]: Can we simplify?
guardian 16-NOV-16
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[said:]: There is a tendency isn't there for all of us, sometimes, to look at a problem and think the skills we have are perhaps the best answer to that.
express 16-NOV-16
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[added:]: MPs like Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Tim Farron should be listening to the views of voters rather than arrogantly attempting to overturn the vote.
express 11-NOV-16
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[ declared]: People have had enough of experts,
Stuff 10-NOV-16
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[said:]: He’s incompetent, he doesn’t do what he says, he doesn’t remember anything, he doesn’t communicate with anyone, he can’t make anything work.
thetimes 03-NOV-16
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[says:]: [Carney’s] position is held to be independent and without any error. And so any criticism of his actions is regarded as a thought crime.
guardian 31-OCT-16
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[said:]: Michael and Sarah’s son is a mature and confident secondary school pupil.
express 30-OCT-16
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[-insisted]: I didn’t watch it,
guardian 27-OCT-16
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[ says]: totally wrong and a retrograde step
dailymail 27-OCT-16
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[replied:]: It was a mistake.
msn 27-OCT-16
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[-replied]: foolish miscalculation
msn 27-OCT-16
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[said:]: I should either have paused before supporting Boris the way that I did or, having agreed to support Boris that I should have stuck with it.
msn 27-OCT-16
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[-says]: We want to ensure that for as long as children are in care, whether it's in foster care or in the residential home, that they're looked after as well as possible,
ibtimes 25-OCT-16
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[said:]: There's a real danger [when] children are caught up in the criminal justice system that it's more difficult, in many cases, to get them back into the types of situation, the types of behaviour, even the types of work, that allow them to make a success of their life. The earlier you intervene the more likely things are to work out for the affected children.
ibtimes 25-OCT-16
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[-told]: I absolutely reject the idea of betrayal,
politico 25-OCT-16
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[-said]: It was probably right after six years in government, I was given the opportunity to spend some time on the backbenches to reflect,
guardian 25-OCT-16
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[said:]: I can draw certain lessons from it, I should either have paused and reflected before backing Boris or having backed Boris then stuck with him and then, if I was going to break from him at the end, I should have said: 'I have an alternative view instead of passing any commentary or judgement on Boris.
dailymail 25-OCT-16
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[-says]: I am uniquely grateful for the fact that I was adopted, and was adopted so early in my life. I can't claim that my experience is anything like the hectic experience of so many children who are in care now, but it does make me think that if I'd been born at a different time, or in different circumstances, then my experiences might have been closer to theirs.
ibtimes 25-OCT-16
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[-said]: Mark Carney may be many things but -- like the rest of us -- he is neither always infallible nor truly independent,
bloomberg 21-OCT-16
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[said:]: [Carney’s] position is held to be independent and without any error. And so any criticism of his actions is regarded as a thought crime – and those who dare to question his rule are flayed in the press with dire warnings left hanging in the air to emphasise the governor will brook no challenge to his authority.
guardian 21-OCT-16
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[-said]: The trouble with technocrats is because they believe they’re smart, expert indeed, they don’t do what all humans should -- and all politicians must -- acknowledge when they’ve made mistakes, learn from errors and adjust their assumptions,
bloomberg 21-OCT-16
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[said:]: Pentonville is the most dramatic example of failure within the prison estate, but its problems, while more acute than anywhere else, are very far from unique,
bbc 20-OCT-16
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[said:]: Can I congratulate the minister for recognising what Labour failed to - that NHS money is taxpayers' money and the priority should always be patient care, not the profits of private equity firms.
independent 20-OCT-16
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[-wrote]: I am in no doubt Boris Johnson is and was 100% sincere and passionate about Britain leaving the EU – his conviction was clear,
guardian 17-OCT-16
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[-remarked]: What has been achieved here is inspiring,
guardian 11-OCT-16
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[said:]: I should have said, ‘Boris is a great guy’ — which he is — ‘but I think it’s only right that everyone has the widest possible choice, so I’m going to put myself forward, and if people like my ideas, great, but if they prefer Boris’s ideas, lovely too.
thesun 09-OCT-16
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[said:]: It’s outrageous that the £350 million British taxpayers send to the EU every week is being spent on propaganda designed to indoctrinate children.
thesun 30-SEP-16
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[-announces]: OMFG!
mailonsunday 25-SEP-16
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[said:]: Taking a child into care is not a failure on the part of social workers - but leaving children at risk of neglect or abuse is something none of us should wish to encourage. Understandably, social workers do everything they can to keep families together. And, understandably, they fear being branded child-snatchers, do-gooders or anti-family if they initiate care proceedings. But it is far better if social workers follow their instincts to intervene and rescue rather than acquiesce in abusive or neglectful pa
independent 21-SEP-16
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[declared:]: People in this country have had enough of experts.
themirror 20-SEP-16
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[said:]: In the seven short weeks since you have been in office alongside our new Foreign Secretary and our new Secretary of State for International Trade we have seen a record increase in service industries growth, a record increase in manufacturing industry growth, a 3.3 per cent increase in motor car sales.
express 06-SEP-16
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[said:]: What we've had is an attempt to use this vote to manufacture grievance, rather than ask what is in the best interest of the Scottish people. READ MORE: Economy the focus as Nicola Sturgeon unveils Government plans
heraldscotland 06-SEP-16
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[said:]: In the seven short weeks since you have been in office alongside our new Foreign Secretary and our new Secretary of State for International Trade we have seen a record increase in service industries growth, a record increase in manufacturing industry growth, a 3.3% increase in motor car sales.
heraldscotland 05-SEP-16
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[last night insisted:]: Michael remains on very good terms with old friends who took a different side in the Referendum.
thesun 02-SEP-16
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[has said:]: I don't know how the Sun got all its information and I don't think it's really worth my adding anything to what's already been said.
bbc 07-AUG-16
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[said:]: I think people in this country have had enough of experts.
TheScotsman 04-AUG-16
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[said:]: Michael gets all sorts of weird letters and junk sent to him at work and at home.
themirror 09-JUL-16
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[said:]: I can’t hold it back anymore. I love Tony.
themirror 09-JUL-16
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[-said]: I never thought I’d ever be in this position. I did not want it, indeed I did almost everything not to be a candidate for the leadership of this party,
msn 08-JUL-16
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[-said]: She has done things outside of this place on so many different levels.
mercopress 08-JUL-16
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[-said]: Those are the things my colleagues have voted for in overwhelming numbers today, and I am confident they will win the support of our members - and the support of the country as a whole.
belfasttelegraph 08-JUL-16
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[-said]: I was so very reluctant because I know my limitations. Whatever charisma is, I don’t have it; whatever glamour may be, I don’t think anyone could ever associate me with it. But – at every step in my political life – I’ve asked myself one question: what is the right thing to do? What does your heart tell you?
msn 08-JUL-16
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[said:]: Yes! Normally it's
heraldscotland 08-JUL-16
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[said:]: Thanks to all who supported me. Congratulations to Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom. All the best with the campaign.
newsandstar 08-JUL-16
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[-said]: This is the challenge for the next Prime Minister, and I’m pleased to say this next sentence: ‘whoever she may be’,
standard 08-JUL-16
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[-told]: Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills,
reuters 07-JUL-16
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[said:]: Whoever the next Prime Minister of this country will be, it will be a female Prime Minister and a female Prime Minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.
icWales 07-JUL-16
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[said:]: Theresa is a formidable candidate and a great Home Secretary, but I’m delighted by the support that I’ve received from colleagues and it reflects the optimistic message that I’ve been arguing for.
express 06-JUL-16
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[-said]: I’ve managed to bring people together across the Conservative Party behind a hopeful and optimistic message of change, and I hope that I’ll be able to take that message to the country,
japantimes 06-JUL-16
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[wrote:]: I did not campaign for Britain to leave the European Union as an end in itself. Voting to leave is the means to an end, which is the real mission of my career in politics: to make this country the best place in the world in which to grow up, to get on, to make a contribution.
ibtimes 06-JUL-16
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[-said]: I've managed to bring people together across the Conservative Party behind a hopeful and optimistic message of change, and I hope that I'll be able to take that message to the country,
firstpost 05-JUL-16
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[warned:]: People in this country have had enough of experts
businessday 05-JUL-16
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[said:]: No I’m not. There…I don’t want to do it and there are people who are far better equipped than me to do it.
themirror 05-JUL-16
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[said:]: Theresa is a formidable candidate and a great Home Secretary, but I’m delighted by the support that I’ve received from colleagues.
express 05-JUL-16
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[said:]: We wish Ben Wallace well.
bbc 04-JUL-16
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[said:]: Michael accepts that candidates for the job of prime minister should be transparent about their income and tax affairs.
itv 04-JUL-16
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[-told]: I love my country, I could not recommend that Boris be prime minister,
sinacom 04-JUL-16
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[said:]: I put my country and my principles first.
express 03-JUL-16
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[added:]: I knew that by taking that decision all sorts of people would attack me personally but I love my country, I could not recommend that Boris was prime minister, I had tried to make that work and, therefore, it would have been a genuine betrayal of principle and of this country to have allowed Boris's candidacy to go ahead with my support.
standard 03-JUL-16
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[-said today]: genuine betrayal of this country
standard 03-JUL-16
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[said:]: I wanted him to be prime minister, and I realized during those four days that he was not the man and this was not the time.
politico 03-JUL-16
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Tim Farron [said:]: Michael Gove has had a rare opportunity to put questions to the most divisive and reactionary President-Elect in modern history and all we get is a puff piece from a clearly admiring fan.
skynews 16-JAN-17
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David Smith [added:]: Michael Gove says democracy means we benefit from
themirror 28-DEC-16
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Stephenson [-told]: was our regular refrain in midnight taxis home as we prayed that senior Conservative politicians like Michael Gove and Boris Johnson would join us.
huffingtonpost 09-DEC-16
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Gardiner [said:]: Michael Gove said it was a red line, he stood in front of the five principles and said these are the red lines.
express 05-DEC-16
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Michael Russell [said:]: We warned during the referendum campaign that Tory and Leave campaign promises of new powers after Brexit - such as Michael Gove’s suggestion Holyrood would gain control of immigration - were highly unlikely to be matched by the reality. And while we would expect all matters not expressly reserved by the Scotland Act to be devolved, the UK Government should provide clarity on that point.
heraldscotland 19-OCT-16
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Clegg [-writes]: Given how much No 10 clearly loathed Gove’s principal adviser at the time and were as exasperated as I was by his occasional public outbursts, this didn’t seem to come as much of a surprise to Cameron,
guardian 04-SEP-16
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Farage [said:]: There was a decisive moment in the campaign, the morning Michael Gove and Boris Johnson said we now want an Australian-style points system and limited immigration controls for who can come into this country, and that was a song which I had been signing since 2004, on my own.
express 09-AUG-16
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Clegg [said:]: Michael Gove obviously communicated it well, I know he did.
TheScotsman 08-AUG-16
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Clegg [said:]: Michael Gove obviously communicated it - well, I know he did, he gave this to the Sun.
bbc 07-AUG-16
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Clegg [ said]: Michael Gove obviously communicated it, well I know he did, he gave this to the Sun,
guardian 07-AUG-16
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Clarke [said:]: I don’t think the membership will vote for Gove.
themirror 09-JUL-16
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Michael Russell [said:]: We know that elements of the Tory party have for years been itching for the opportunity to hammer Scotland’s budget even further – and Ms Leadsom is just the latest senior Tory to raise questions over Scotland’s funding in recent weeks, following hot on the heels of Michael Gove and several others.
heraldscotland 09-JUL-16
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Umunna [said:]: We mustn't forget what has happened over the last few months. We mustn't forget the wild claims and impossible promises made by Tory Leavers like Andrea Leadsom, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson.
ibtimes 08-JUL-16
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Umunna [-believes that]: The Tory Leavers want us all to forget about the things they said during the campaign. For all voters – Leave or Remain – it is vital that this does not happen. At Vote Leave Watch, we will spend every day scrutinising Boris, Gove, Andrea Leadsom and the rest of them, and letting you know if they aren't delivering.
ibtimes 08-JUL-16
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Malcolm Rifkind [said:]: As long as Gove doesn't come in the final two I don't mind what happens.
christiantoday 06-JUL-16
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Rifkind [saying:]: I don't mind who wins as long as Gove comes third.
independent 06-JUL-16
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Clarke [replies:]: I don't think the membership will vote for Gove. I remember being in a discussion once about something we should do in somewhere like Syria or Iraq, and he was so wild, I remember exchanging looks with Liam Fox ... who's much more right wing than me, we were exchanging views, and Liam was raising eyebrows.
RTERadio 05-JUL-16
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Rifkind [saying:]: I don't mind who wins as long as Gove comes third ... as long as Gove is not in the final two, I don't mind what happens.
RTERadio 05-JUL-16
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Clarke [replies:]: I don’t think the membership will vote for Gove. I remember being in a discussion once about something we should do in somewhere like Syria or Iraq, and he was so wild, I remember exchanging looks with Liam Fox … who’s much more right wing than me, we were exchanging views, and Liam was raising eyebrows. I think with Michael as prime minister we’d go to war with at least three countries at once.
thecourier 05-JUL-16
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Johnson [says:]: It is time for this nonsense to end... We cannot wait until mid September and a new PM, we need a clear statement, now, of some basic truths. Mr Johnson withdrew from the Tory leadership race on Thursday after his campaign was abandoned by Michael Gove, who criticised the Former Mayor of London's leadership before launching his own campaign for office. Today, Mr Johnson's former campaign manager, Ben Wallace launches an attack of Mr Gove's ability to be Prime Minister, saying that he is unfit to be prime mi
msn 04-JUL-16
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Clarke [ said]: Michael Gove would do us all a favour if he was to stand down now and speed up the process,
euobserver 02-JUL-16
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Ken Clarke [said:]: I do think Michael Gove would do us all a favour if he were to stand down now.
express 02-JUL-16
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Whittingdale [said:]: I have long been an admirer of Michael Gove who has been a consistently powerful conservative voice and has shown that he is a man of principle and conviction. I believe that he is best able to unite the Conservative Party.
standard 01-JUL-16
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Clarke [added:]: I do think Michael Gove would do us all a favour and stand down now. I just think we don’t want to add to the tragedy too much with an air of farce.
thesun 01-JUL-16
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Alex Salmond [said:]: Can we have a week-long debate on political backstabbing? Gove backtracked on previous claims that
theargus 01-JUL-16
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Osborne [said:]: It is painfully obvious that Boris and Gove have no plan, no idea what they are doing, and never expected to win.
msn 26-JUN-16
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Farage [said:]: What we are seeing here is the prime minister and the Remain campaign trying to conflate the actions of one crazed individual with the motives of half of Britain who think we should get back control of our borders and do it sensibly. 'And I think that's quite wrong the way it's been done. 'I think there are Remain camp supporters out there who are using this tragic death to try to give the impression that this isolated, horrific incident is somehow linked to arguments that have been made by myself, or Micha
mailonsunday 20-JUN-16
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Farage [said:]: I think there are Remain camp supporters out there who are using this to try to give the impression that this isolated horrific incident is somehow linked to arguments that have been made by myself or Michael Gove or anybody else in this campaign, and frankly that is wrong.
bbc 20-JUN-16
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Prentis [-urge]: These are the people we have been fighting tooth and nail. Michael Gove writes in books that [the NHS] is not fit for the 21st century … I’m sick of the British people being lied to.
guardian 14-JUN-16
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Alex Salmond [added:]: Lord Chancellor Michael Gove is talking nonsense in ermine-clad stilts.
express 13-JUN-16
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Farron [said:]: What we are seeing in the referendum and what might be the best card, the most effective card, that Gove, Farage et al are playing is one which is basically dog-whistle racism. It’s not so much a dog whistle more of a fog horn, frankly. Mr Farron added:
TheScotsman 07-JUN-16
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Cameron [said:]: I want to prove the breadth of the campaign and I don’t want this to become a sort of Tory psychodrama between me and Boris or me and Michael Gove
guardian 19-MAY-16
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Lord Falconer [said:]: This is a welcome speech with some good ideas but until Michael Gove addresses key issues such as the dramatic rise of violence, self-harm and overcrowding which plague our prisons he will barely begin to scratch the surface of the reform he talks about.
msn 13-MAY-16
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Johnson [replied:]: I’ve written all sorts of things over long period of time and it is perfectly true to say that I thought long and hard about this decision and it was very, very difficult to come to because I don’t want to at variance with the Prime Minister, like Michael Gove, I didn’t want to be going against theGovernment.
huffingtonpost 11-MAY-16
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Rama [said that:]: it is odder still that he (Gove) wants voluntarily to leave a union that seems to have given Britain so much.
news 26-APR-16
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Grieve [replied:]: All courts have to take into account and be bound by what is said. I think this is a bit of an exercise in semantics. Ultimately, Michael Gove’s problem appears to be that he just doesn’t trust the court.
heraldscotland 24-FEB-16
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Murdoch [-said]: Congratulations Michael Gove,
mercopress 22-FEB-16
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Cameron [said:]: Michael Gove like the whole Government supports the renegotiation that is taking place and was elected on a ticket as we all were to deliver that renegotiation which we are some of the way through. Michael Gove like the whole Government supports the renegotiation that is taking place. David Cameron
express 08-FEB-16
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