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Michael Gove is a Conservative peer and editor of The Spectator, appointed by new owner (and owner of GB News) Paul Marshall in October 2024. He was a Conservative MP from 2005 to 2024 and held several cabinet roles including Education Secretary, Justice Secretary, and Education Secretary. He was founding chairman of Policy Exchange. Gove has a long-standing relationship with Marshall: in 2012, when David Cameron refused to fund Gove's plan to send King James Bibles to every state school in the UK, Marshall stepped in to foot the £370,000 bill; the following year, Gove appointed Marshall as lead non-executive director of the Department for Education; and in 2016, Marshall funded Gove's Conservative leadership campaign. According to Tim Shipman's book All Out War, Gove made up his mind to back Brexit "after calling Paul Marshall".

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The Spectator Michael Gove is editor of The Spectator [src]

Conservative Party Michael Gove is a former Conservative MP (2005-2024) and current Conservative Member of the House of Lords [src]

Policy Exchange founder Gove was involved in the founding of Policy Exchange [src][src]

Paul Marshall Gove is editor of The Spectator, which Marshall owns. Marshall also funded Gove's plan in government to send King James Bibles to schools, was made a non-executive director at Gove’s Department for Education and funded Gove's leadership bid [src][src]

Theodore Agnew Gove appointed Agnew to several roles, including non-executive member to the Department for Education Board (2010), Chair of the Department for Education's Academies Board, and lead non-executive board member at the Ministry of Justice (2015). In May 2020, private emails [revealed](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/24/michael-gove-private-emails-ppe-deals-tory-linked-firms) by the Guardian showed that Gove had directed Conservative peer Michelle Mone to contact Agnew - then a Cabinet Office minister responsible for procurement - "urgently" about a PPE supply offer, using private rather than government email addresses. PPE Medpro subsequently received contracts worth £203m after being fast-tracked through the VIP procurement lane. [src][src][src]

Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation Gove sits on the Board of Directors [src]

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