Michael Gove: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: BBC News - Michael Gove. Oct 18, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 22, 2026
Add new Web site: CBC News - Michael Gove, British PM candidate, says U.K.'s next leader must believe in Brexit. Oct 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Harvard University - Britain's growing regional divides - Michael Gove. May 24, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN World - Michael Gove, British PM hopeful: ‘I deeply regret’ taking cocaine. Jan 31, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC News - Michael Gove. Dec 20, 2024
First paragraph modernization. May 03, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC News - Michael Gove. Apr 26, 2024
Links added. Jul 19, 2023
Noted that Boris Johnson fired Gove from the cabinet in July 2022. Jul 06, 2022
Noted that he became secretary of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Mar 01, 2022
Noted his failed bid to become leader of the Conservative Party and closed out his tenure as secretary of the environment. Jul 17, 2020
Noted that Theresa May appointed Gove environment secretary in June 2017. Jun 12, 2017
Noted Gove's failed candidacy for the party leadership and replacement as justice secretary. Jul 14, 2016
Noted Gove's role as a leading spokesperson for the "Leave" campaign in the June 2016 referendum in which British voters chose for the U.K. to leave the European Union. Jun 24, 2016
Add new Web site: Official Site of Michael Gove. May 27, 2016
Noted Gove's appointment as lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice in David Cameron's majority government. May 11, 2015
Noted that Gove was reelected to the House of Commons in 2015. May 08, 2015
New article added. Feb 10, 2015
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