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I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

Michael Gove

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Michael Gove
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 26
British Politician
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Michael Andrew Gove
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Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.
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I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.
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There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.
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One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.
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Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
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Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
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It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.
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I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.
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The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.
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Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.
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A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.
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One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.
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It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
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We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.
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I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.
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I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.
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