The Latest Breaking News from Michael Gove

What are Labour’s plans for ending tax breaks for private schools?

Party policy is to add standard 20% rate of VAT to school fees and use funds raised to pay for more state teachers

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024

Minister warned Sunak it was not common sense to have a snap election

Exclusive: Details are emerging of the final cabinet meeting when Rishi Sunak told his top team he had called a snap election

The Independent UK · May 27, 2024

Farewell, Michael Gove: from Brexit to levelling up, you sowed the seeds for this Conservative crisis

The Tory puppet master is leaving behind a febrile party flying ever further towards the fringes of our politics, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2024

UK politics: minister defends loss of high-profile Tory MPs after Gove joins exodus – as it happened

Treasury minister Bim Afolami said it was ‘not unnatural’ for high-profile Tory MPs to be standing down at an election

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2024

Leasehold Reform Bill passes — but no ground rent cap for existing leaseholders

Neither leaseholders nor freeholders are entirely happy with the last-minute legislation

Evening Standard · May 24, 2024

Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom to stand down at general election

Seventy-eight Tory MPs are quitting rather than standing, beating 1997’s record number

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2024

Gove joins rats leaving sinking Tory ship as Sunak visits Titanic Museum

Michael Gove is the secretary of state for Levelling Up and has been in the Cabinet for more than a decade

The Independent UK · May 24, 2024

Michael Gove announces he will not stand at the General Election

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has announced he will not stand at the General Election.

The National (Scotland) · May 24, 2024

Michael Gove to stand down at general election in blow to Rishi Sunak amid record Tory MP exodus

Mr Gove and leading Brexiteer Andrea Leadsom are latest high profile Conservatives to stand down at election

Evening Standard · May 24, 2024

Sunak seems convinced that Who Dares Wins. Spoiler alert: sometimes they lose really badly

A drowned-rat PM, a blank page contender and frit Farage refusing to stand at all. All in the first 48 hours – are you not entertained, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2024