Keir Starmer: the Downing Street terminator
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
ByMichael Gove
Zia Yusuf: Jeremy Corbyn is worse than Tommy Robinson
Reform UK’s head of policy comes out batting for the five time prisoner.
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Is Theresa May your hero?
Rory Stewart thinks she should be.
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How Labour fell in love with Dominic Cummings
Five years ago the British left thought dark data Dom was a crank. Now they take his ideas seriously.
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What’s wrong with Sarah Vine?
The columnist’s memoir promises an insider’s account of the Cameron years – but instead provides a study in overwhelming self-pity.
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Arise, Lord Michael Gove
Today, the Tory grandee was sworn into the House of Lords, entering the nobility at long last.
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What is school for?
The struggle for control of the national curriculum is a fight for the soul of English education.
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Google’s days of monopolising the web may be numbered
Also this week: Michael Gove’s delight at Spectator editorship, and the BBC’s Strictly bullying claims.
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Paul Marshall anoints Michael Gove as editor of the Spectator
The former cabinet minister trades Whitehall for Fleet Street.
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Michael Gove’s lessons for Labour
The former cabinet minister on what Keir Starmer is getting right and wrong.
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Labour must learn to govern like Gove to transform the country
The new cabinet should take inspiration from the last government’s greatest reformer.
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Gove’s new definition of extremism is already a problem for Sunak
The new policy was designed to tackle the rise in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim abuse – but it has been called…
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Tireless Tory chair swaps hustings for hostelries
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Michael Gove’s £30bn trap for Labour
Could the Tories, as Keir Starmer has accused them, be “trying to salt the ground” for the next government?
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Why Michael Gove’s planning reforms won’t deliver sustainable housing
The Housing Secretary’s new planning framework for England does little to encourage net zero development.
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Gove dodges questions on Teesworks controversy and defends freeports
The Levelling Up Secretary refused to confirm a date for reporting on potential wrongdoing in Tees Valley.
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Councils are on the brink – but there’s no mea culpa from Michael Gove
With one in five local authorities saying they are likely to go bankrupt, the Levelling Up Secretary is shifting the…
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Why ministers like Michael Gove are so rare
The Levelling-Up Secretary’s apology to the Covid inquiry was the most explicit form of contrition from any government figure.
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Michael Gove is considering stepping down to avoid a “Portillo moment”
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Conservative conference can’t take its eyes off Farage
Your dose of gossip from the Manchester Central Convention Complex.
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