Michael Gove
@michaelgove
Spectator Editor
A must read
Can anything stop Reform? The inside story of the political summer ahead 🚨Civil servants secretly helping Farage prepare for govt 🚨Tory membership down 8,000 to 123,000 under Badenoch 🚨Murdoch open to backing Farage 🚨Labour reset: no new No10 dept spectator.co.uk/article/can-an…
Superb Evening at the Spectator Summer Party A spectacular gathering of the finest journalistic intellects that the British Empire has to offer. Many thanks for a most enjoyable evening. @CharlesHMoore @michaelgove @Freddygray31 @MrHarryCole @Nigel_Farage @piersmorgan…
The Spectator is now the only place to read Tim Shipman. In this week's issue: 🚨 Civil servants are asking how they could help Reform UK. 🚨 Tony Blair is warning Starmer: This isn’t working.' 🚨 Tory party membership has fallen by 8,000 since Kemi Badenoch became leader.
The US has withdrawn its negotiating team from Qatar after Hamas yet again refused to cooperate during ceasefire talks. There are still 50 hostages remaining in Gaza, brutally taken from their homes on October 7th. The French Government’s decision to unilaterally recognise a…
We have decided to bring our team home from Doha for consultations after the latest response from Hamas, which clearly shows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza. While the mediators have made a great effort, Hamas does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good…
Not good
🚨 NEW government delays on the leasehold front, conveniently confirmed the day Parliament was closing for summer hols 🚨 The governing powers are confused. And leaseholders aren’t amused. @e_casalicchio has the scoop in Playbook this evening. politico.eu/newsletter/lon…
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Good old UK news not mentioning Gove is a lobbyist for Israel In 2021 he met in private with Netanyahu, & he’s linked to a Tory lobby group with direct ties to charities which provide welfare support to solders in the IDF including an org funded by Israel’s Ministry of Defence.
Kevin Maguire "Are you really blaming what Israel is now doing, killing Palestinians in huge numbers, on Hamas? Are you really doing that?" Michael Gove: "Yes" Gove isn't just an apologist for genocide. He's cheering it on #GMB
A new coll. of essays from @Policy_Exchange, "The Future of the Right", asks: what, if anything, can Britain’s Right still stand for after the 2024 collapse? Below are some thoughts on key arguments & tensions highlighted by the authors 🧵
“We ought to reassert ourselves as a bulwark against exploitative capitalism, ensuring that more of our country’s wealth goes into the pockets of the workers. It is the workers who create our wealth, after all, through the strength of common endeavour.” Read my piece below 👇
The left-wing case for controlled immigration ✍️ Jonathan Hinder spectator.co.uk/article/the-le…
On Afghan Resettlement and MOD data breach: I’d like to add my sincere apology to those of other current & former defence ministers for the data breach which compromised details of so many applicants to the ARAP scheme. 🧵 [1/25]
We did @spectator many months ago!
Not enough people have pointed out that Streeting and Phillipson are running literally opposite policies. Wes is trying to do academies to the NHS, Bridget is undoing academies. Wes wants doctors to be able to trade pension for salary, Bridget is banning teachers from doing so.
Credit where it's due. Kemi Badenoch properly did Keir Starmer this week by luring him into a blanket commitment not to raise Income Tax, NI or VAT, then skewering him on thresholds and a wealth tax.
26 former UK diplomats. 164 words. None of them is “hostages”.
Delighted to be able to support Jewish Care - and also underline my concerns at the way the lethal virus of anti-semitism is mutating
The ‘ecstatic adulation’ of chanting crowds was as much the problem as Bob Vylan, says Gove thejc.com/news/community…
Without a doubt
Is @_F_B_G_ the best-dressed man at Wimbledon?
Another nugget from @ShippersUnbound spectator.co.uk/article/can-ke…
The definitive guide to Labour’s pains
MY SPECTATOR COVER ON A YEAR OF LABOUR 🔥LEAKED MEMO: McSweeney predicted Starmer's problems with 'super actvist' MPs before the election 🔥'Rachel is a study in Shakesperean tragedy' 🔥Chief whip warned of welfare defeat 9 months ago/ was threatened with sack 🔥No 10 now using…
Inside the insurgency - top stuff from @JAHeale
Exc in this week’s @spectator column: - Inside Reform UK’s new office - Paul Nuttall is new Vice Chairman - Farage on McSweeney’s strategy - Labour’s £1.3m New Media Unit - How Sunak enlivened the Tories ‘evening of fun’ with Gyles Brandreth
A cracking edition
🗞️ Claws out: Can Starmer fend off Labour’s big beasts, asks Tim Shipman ✍️ Also in the magazine: 🔸 Kate Andrews: The man who will ruin New York 🔸 Michael Gove: I’ll miss the royal train 🔸 Madeline Grant: The horror of wedding speeches spectator.co.uk/subscribe/
Just saying
From @michaelgove: Here are some of the achievements of the past 14 years. Do we really want to go back to square one? tinyurl.com/4r7prbrs