Michael Gove has had a pretty good year, continuing his rise and sparring effectively with Ed Balls along the way. He has a sense of humour, as Conservative Home highlights by spotting this gem from the Commons this week. The whole thing merits reading. Gove is on his feet "I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and the Government Front-Bench team for their understanding in allowing me ...
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IainMartin on 12th Dec 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Conservative education spokesperson Michael Gove, who repeatedly claimed the reason GCSE exam results have consistently improved with Labour was because GCSE exam questions were getting easier, was left dumbstruck after Ed Balls turned the tables on him. As you’ll see in this recording of the Commons, Ed Balls asks Michael Gove to answer just three
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LabourMatters on 19th Nov 2009 (via labourmatters.com)
The prize for most improved conduct goes to Ed Balls and Michael Gove.
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Telegraph on 17th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Ed Balls MP, Labour's Schools Secretary, today called on David Cameron and Michael Gove to come clean about the Conservative Party's plans for cuts to education spending. Ed Balls has today written to the shadow schools secretary Michael Gove for the fifth time since the start of April to ask whether the Conservatives would match Labour's extra spending to guarantee a place in schoo...
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LabourMatters on 29th May 2009 (via labourmatters.com)
Mr Gove is getting a reputation for this sort of stuff. I wonder if he does kids parties also ? ( H/T to SPOILTBALLOT ). PS Watch how much Ed Balls is enjoying this ....
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ManInAShed on 19th Dec 2008 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
Michael Gove is an absolute master of his Education brief, his media performances over the riots this morning were very good indeed and I have just caught up with his absolute mauling of Labour's Harriet Harman here: If you have a spare tenner, a flutter on Mr Gove might not be a bad idea. A few years transforming our education system, Gove would make an excellent Home Secretary and then who ...
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LittlesLog on 10th Aug 2011 (via antonylittle.blogspot.com)
Ed Balls MP, Labour's Schools Secretary, today called on David Cameron and Michael Gove to come clean about the Conservative Party's plans for cuts to education spending. Ed Balls has today written to the shadow schools secretary Michael Gove for the fifth time since the start of April to ask whether the Conservatives would match Labour's extra spending to guarantee a place in schoo...
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LabourParty on 28th May 2009 (via labour.org.uk)
It's a story that risks getting buried (conveniently for the Government?) amid the Budget, but shadow children, schools and families secretary Michael Gove is demanding a "profound apology" from his opposite number in the Government, Ed Balls, over the collapse...
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ConservativeHome on 22nd Apr 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Ed Balls opened his remarks on Thursday morning with the words, "When I became Home Secretary?" This provoked cries of protest, for Mr Balls is not and never has been Home Secretary: at this point he was still shadow Home Secretary.
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Telegraph on 20th Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The prize for most improved conduct goes to Ed Balls and Michael Gove.
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Telegraph on 17th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
...is surely that of Ed Balls and the Guardian's Michael White duelling with lightsabres. For an explanation of that, as well as a cracking Damian Green gag, we must turn to Michael Gove in the Commons yesterday: I was particularly pleased to read about the great fun had by all at the Christmas party held by the Secretary of State at the Department for Children, Schools and Families [Ed Balls - E]...
