Michael Gove

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Gove
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Aug 26, 1967(1967-08-26)
Age	57
Birthplace	Aberdeen
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Leo

Michael Gove Biography

Michael Gove is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on August 26, 1967 in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom. British Conservative who was Secretary of State Education. He was then promoted to Lord Chancellor and Secretary of the State for Justice during the 2015 general elections. He was a columnist at The Times before becoming the author of Celsius 7/7.

In 2010, he succeeded He succeeded Ed Balls as the Secretary of State for Education in 2010. to the position of Secretary of State for Education.

Michael Andrew Gove (/ɡ oʊ v / ; born Graeme Andrew Logan; 26 August 1967) is a British Conservative politician who has been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 24 July 2019 and Minister for the Cabinet Office since 13 February 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2005. Gove served in the First Cameron government as Secretary of State for Education from 2010 to 2014 and Secretary of State for Justice in the Second Cameron government from 2015 to 2016, and he has also served in the Second May government as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He has twice run to become Leader of the Conservative Party, in 2016 and 2019, finishing in third place on both occasions.

He briefly joined the Labour Party in 1983 in Aberdeen, but has stated that by the time he left to go to Oxford University he was a Conservative. Gove joined the Oxford University Conservative Association and was secretary of Aberdeen South Young Conservatives. He helped to write speeches for Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet ministers, including Peter Lilley and Michael Howard. When applying for a job at the Conservative Research Department he was told he was “insufficiently political” and “insufficiently Conservative”, so he turned to journalism.

In 2001, he married Sarah Vine, a British journalist; they have two children named William and Beatrice.

Michael Gove Net Worth

Michael Gove is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Gove 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Edinburgh, he was adopted at the age of four months by a family from Aberdeen. Later, he was President of the Oxford Union at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford.

He is a proud Christian who pushed for the distribution and use of the King James Bible in schools throughout England and Wales. He approved three schools that were run by creationists in 2012.

Graeme Logan was born on 26 August 1967. His biological mother, whom he originally believed to have been an unmarried Edinburgh student, was in fact a 23-year-old cookery demonstrator. Gove regarded his birthplace as Edinburgh until it was revealed in a biography in 2019 that he was born in a maternity hospital in Fonthill Road, Aberdeen.

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Who is Michael Gove Dating?

According to our records, Michael Gove married to Sarah Vine. As of December 1, 2023, Michael Gove’s is not dating anyone.

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Gove had been chairman of Policy Exchange, a conservative think tank launched in 2002. He was involved in founding the right-leaning magazine Standpoint, to which he occasionally contributes. Gove expressed admiration in late-February 2003 for New Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair because of the way he was handling the crisis in Iraq: “As a right-wing polemicist, all I can say looking at Mr Blair now is, what’s not to like?” Blair, he thought, was “behaving like a true Thatcherite”.

Facts & Trivia

Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Michael Gove celebrates birthday on August 26 of every year.

The Financial Times describes Gove as having “strong neoconservative convictions”. He proposed that the 2003 invasion of Iraq would bring peace and democracy both to Iraq and the wider Middle East. In December 2008, he wrote that declarations of either victory or defeat in Iraq in 2003 were premature, and that the liberation of Iraq was a foreign policy success.

Top Facts about Michael Gove

1. Michael Gove is a British politician born in 1967.
2. He served as Secretary of State for Education from 2010-2014.
3. Gove was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during Brexit.
4. He has been MP for Surrey Heath since 2005.
5. Gove ran unsuccessfully for Conservative Party leadership in 2016.
6. He has held various ministerial positions, including Environment Secretary and Justice Secretary.
7. Gove attended Oxford University and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
8. He is known for his controversial education reforms while serving as Education Secretary.
9. In 2020, he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office under Boris Johnson’s government.
10. Gove is married to journalist Sarah Vine and they have two children together.

Is Gove adopted?

At the age of four months he was adopted by a Labour-supporting couple in Aberdeen, Ernest and Christine Gove, by whom he was brought up. After he joined the Gove family, Logan’s name was changed to Michael Andrew Gove.

What is Michael Groves title?

Biography. The Rt Hon Michael Gove was appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 15 September 2021. He was previously Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from July 2019 to September 2021. He was also Minister for the Cabinet Office from February 2020 to September 2021.

Who is my MP for Surrey Heath?

Member of Parliament – Michael Gove | SURREY HEATH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

When was Michael Gove born?

August 26, 1967 (age 54 years)

Is Sarah Vine Italian?

Sarah Rosemary Vine was born in Swansea, Wales on 16 April 1967. When she was five, the family moved to Italy, initially staying in Rome before moving to Frascati.