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My Take
Gove is one of those figures who is easy to label and hard to dismiss. What interests me is the through-line: he started as a journalist, a writer who lived by argument, and that instinct never left him even at the top of British politics. Holding senior Cabinet posts across more than a decade, twice cycling back to the backbenches, and now sitting in the House of Lords, he shows a kind of durability that polarising people rarely manage. I do not need to agree with him to respect the staying power. Note the data wrongly tags him American; he is firmly British, Edinburgh-born and Oxford-educated.
Overview
Michael Andrew Gove, Baron Gove (; born Graeme Andrew Logan; 26 August 1967) is a British politician and journalist. A member of the House of Lords since 2025, he previously held senior Cabinet positions in Conservative governments between 2010 and 2024. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath from 2005 to 2024, during which he twice returned to the backbenches.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Michael Gove
- Name (Japanese)
- マイケル・ゴーヴ
- Reading
- まいける・ごーゔ
- Born
- August 26, 1967 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Goat
- Origin
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- journalist / politician / judge / writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Robert Gordon's College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.