Michael Gove

Michael Andrew Gove ( born August 26, 1967 in Edinburgh ) is a British journalist, politician and the Conservative Party since May 2010 Minister of Education ( Secretary of State for Education).

Biography

The son of a businessman from the fishing industry and a teacher studied after the visit of state and independent schools and the Robert Gordon 's College from 1985 to 1988, the English language at the Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, where he was also President of the Oxford Union. In 1993, he was chief judge of the World Universities Debating Championship, an international student competition in debating.

After graduating Gove, originally supporters and activists of the Labour Party, worked as a journalist and had been appointed by the editor Peter Stothard to columnist for the daily newspaper The Times in 1996.

During this time he initiated together with Frances Lawrence, the widow of a murdered school rector, a campaign to combat street crime and its causes. Your campaign influenced the legislation on the ban of combat knives and led to the foundation of a prize for best youth citizens.

His real political career began at the elections in May 2005 when he was first elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party as a member of the lower house (House of Commons ) and in this since the constituency of Surrey Heath represents.

In December 2005, he was appointed to the Conservative shadow cabinet, in which he was initially "shadow minister" of housing and then from June 2007 to May 2010 for Children, Schools and Families.

After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election in 2010 he was appointed on 12 May 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron to the education minister in his cabinet.