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Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two.

Michael Gove

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Michael Gove
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 26
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