Michael Gove
Michael Gove becomes latest high-profile Tory to stand down ahead of election
![Gove offers to help cash-strapped Scots councils 'denigrated and defunded' by SNP](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17811992.jpg)
![Gove offers to help cash-strapped Scots councils 'denigrated and defunded' by SNP](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17811992.jpg)
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![Gove probed by Parliamentary standards watchodg](/resources/images/128x89/1x/5295647.jpg)
![Gove probed by Parliamentary standards watchodg](/resources/images/180x180/1x/5295647.jpg)
![Second Labour run council urges Gove to bypass SNP government in tax freeze row](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17562939.jpg)
![Second Labour run council urges Gove to bypass SNP government in tax freeze row](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17562939.jpg)
![Rt Hon Michael Gove speaking on the second day of the Scottish Conservative party conference at the](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16724475.jpg)
![Rt Hon Michael Gove speaking on the second day of the Scottish Conservative party conference at the](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16724475.jpg)
Updated
![First Minister Humza Yousaf and his cabinet](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17740422.jpg)
![First Minister Humza Yousaf and his cabinet](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17740422.jpg)
![Both Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney deleted messages during Covid](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13296583.jpg)
![Both Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney deleted messages during Covid](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13296583.jpg)
![Young families find it almost impossible to buy a house in many parts of the Highlands](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17703987.jpg)
![Young families find it almost impossible to buy a house in many parts of the Highlands](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17703987.jpg)
!['Staggering hypocrisy:' SNP and Tories accuse each other of politicising pandemic](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17694714.jpg)
!['Staggering hypocrisy:' SNP and Tories accuse each other of politicising pandemic](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17694714.jpg)
UK Covid Inquiry
![UK Levelling Up Minister Michael Gove](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13127310.jpg)
![UK Levelling Up Minister Michael Gove](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13127310.jpg)
![Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17534352.jpg)
![Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17534352.jpg)
![Gove denies 'playing politics' during pandemic as secret polling on union published](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17494564.jpg)
![Gove denies 'playing politics' during pandemic as secret polling on union published](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17494564.jpg)
![Six projects in Scotland to share £122m of Level Up funding](/resources/images/128x89/1x/5295647.jpg)
![Six projects in Scotland to share £122m of Level Up funding](/resources/images/180x180/1x/5295647.jpg)
![Nadine Dorries has written a new book alleging there is a a sinister, secret cabal running 10 Downing Street](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17422162.jpg)
![Nadine Dorries has written a new book alleging there is a a sinister, secret cabal running 10 Downing Street](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17422162.jpg)
![Michael Gove has called for tax cuts at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16726444.jpg)
![Michael Gove has called for tax cuts at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16726444.jpg)
![Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove at the Conservative Party conference](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17291278.jpg)
![Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove at the Conservative Party conference](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17291278.jpg)
David Bol in Manchester
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13127310.jpg)
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13127310.jpg)
![Patrick Harvie botched the communications on the policy on the replacement of gas boilers](/resources/images/128x89/1x/12932254.jpg)
![Patrick Harvie botched the communications on the policy on the replacement of gas boilers](/resources/images/180x180/1x/12932254.jpg)
Opinion
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17032171.jpg)
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17032171.jpg)
![Rejecting Scottish drug decriminalisation plan 'undermines union' say SNP](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16983613.jpg)
![Rejecting Scottish drug decriminalisation plan 'undermines union' say SNP](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16983613.jpg)
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13127310.jpg)
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13127310.jpg)
![Alister Jack with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in September 2020](/resources/images/128x89/1x/12275749.jpg)
![Alister Jack with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in September 2020](/resources/images/180x180/1x/12275749.jpg)
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![MPs will have their say on the Privileges Committee report on Boris Johnson on Monday](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16901194.jpg)
![MPs will have their say on the Privileges Committee report on Boris Johnson on Monday](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16901194.jpg)
![Michael Gove being interviewed on TV today](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16900599.jpg)
![Michael Gove being interviewed on TV today](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16900599.jpg)
![Yousaf rejects UK Government claims SNP ministers making diplomats 'uncomfortable'](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16897998.jpg)
![Yousaf rejects UK Government claims SNP ministers making diplomats 'uncomfortable'](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16897998.jpg)
![Humza Yousaf](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16843261.jpg)
![Humza Yousaf](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16843261.jpg)
![Rt Hon Michael Gove speaking on the second day of the Scottish Conservative party conference at the](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16724475.jpg)
![Rt Hon Michael Gove speaking on the second day of the Scottish Conservative party conference at the](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16724475.jpg)
Updated
![Alastair Cambell has written a book urging people to get into politics](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16778261.jpg)
![Alastair Cambell has written a book urging people to get into politics](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16778261.jpg)
![Jacob Rees-Mogg, Michael Gove and Suella Braverman are among the leading lights promoting 'National Conservatism'](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16737369.jpg)
![Jacob Rees-Mogg, Michael Gove and Suella Braverman are among the leading lights promoting 'National Conservatism'](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16737369.jpg)
Opinion
![Rt Hon Michael Gove speaking on the second day of the Scottish Conservative party conference at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16724475.jpg)
![Rt Hon Michael Gove speaking on the second day of the Scottish Conservative party conference at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16724475.jpg)
![Gove looks stumped when asked to name Sturgeon's 'biggest achievement'](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16599279.jpg)
![Gove looks stumped when asked to name Sturgeon's 'biggest achievement'](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16599279.jpg)
![Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/11985993.jpg)
![Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/11985993.jpg)
![Gove apologises after blunder sees Commons suspended](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16246131.jpg)
![Gove apologises after blunder sees Commons suspended](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16246131.jpg)
![Suella Braverman was reappointed as Home Secretary in Downing Street, London, by Rishi Sunak in his first Cabinet as Prime Minister. Picture date: Tuesday October 25, 2022. PA Photo.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16101347.jpg)
![Suella Braverman was reappointed as Home Secretary in Downing Street, London, by Rishi Sunak in his first Cabinet as Prime Minister. Picture date: Tuesday October 25, 2022. PA Photo.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16101347.jpg)
![Liz Truss](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16101659.jpg)
![Liz Truss](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16101659.jpg)
![Alison Rowat: How do you solve a problem like a Prime Minister who ignores the question?](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16000595.jpg)
![Alison Rowat: How do you solve a problem like a Prime Minister who ignores the question?](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16000595.jpg)
Watch
![Gove bows out of frontline politics and backs Sunak for PM](/resources/images/128x89/1x/14502204.jpg)
![Gove bows out of frontline politics and backs Sunak for PM](/resources/images/180x180/1x/14502204.jpg)
![No relief from tax hikes despite cost of living crisis](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13570468.jpg)
![No relief from tax hikes despite cost of living crisis](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13570468.jpg)
![Michael Gove has claimed the UK and Scottish governments could diverge over future energy policy](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13522646.jpg)
![Michael Gove has claimed the UK and Scottish governments could diverge over future energy policy](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13522646.jpg)
![Yay me: Michael Gove](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13515811.jpg)
![Yay me: Michael Gove](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13515811.jpg)
![First Minister Nicola Sturgeon](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13053947.jpg)
![First Minister Nicola Sturgeon](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13053947.jpg)
![Indian Get Away: Lord Offord in Mumbai](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13129736.jpg)
![Indian Get Away: Lord Offord in Mumbai](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13129736.jpg)
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13127310.jpg)
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13127310.jpg)
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13126926.jpg)
![Michael Gove](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13126926.jpg)
![United they stand: Michael and Michelle](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13039766.jpg)
![United they stand: Michael and Michelle](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13039766.jpg)
![A screengrab from the video showing Michael Gove at a club night in Aberdeen.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/12951098.jpg)
![A screengrab from the video showing Michael Gove at a club night in Aberdeen.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/12951098.jpg)
![Herald Political Editor Tom Gordon.Pic Gordon Terris/The Herald.6/10/16.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/9369176.jpg)
![Herald Political Editor Tom Gordon.Pic Gordon Terris/The Herald.6/10/16.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/9369176.jpg)
![Herald Political Editor Tom Gordon.Pic Gordon Terris/The Herald.6/10/16.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/9369176.jpg)
![Herald Political Editor Tom Gordon.Pic Gordon Terris/The Herald.6/10/16.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/9369176.jpg)
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