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There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

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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The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.
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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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The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.
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I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.
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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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You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'
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Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
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In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
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If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.
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I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
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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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