Top 15 Michael Gove Quotes

It is, perhaps, hard to imagine a collaboration between Virgil and Captain W.E. Johns, a fusion of the Aeneid and Biggles Pulls It Off, but that is how Boris Johnson’s memoir reads.

[On government ministers falling out with "special interest" groups] Very few health secretaries are going to be toasted by doctors, very few educational secretaries are going to get apples from teachers and very few secretary of states in this role are going to get Fortnum & Mason hampers sent to them by the Home Builders Federation.

It's important that the Government does press ahead with appropriate and thoughtful steps in order to safeguard the environment but there are some specific areas where the cost that is being imposed on individuals risks creating a backlash. [...] We don't want to get to a situation where the support for improving our environment curdles and turns into resistance.

We're committed to maintaining our policy of ensuring that by 2030 there are no new petrol and diesel cars being sold.
I'm sure there are some people who would like to change that policy, I understand. But that policy remains.

Businesses in Northern Ireland have the opportunity to enjoy the best of both worlds: access to the , because there's no infrastructure on the Island of Ireland, and at the same time unfettered access to the rest of the UK market.

I think that there are a number of economic factors in play. Some prices may go up. Other prices will come down.

The assumptions in that document were the product of work done then. We have a new government now, and under this new government we've been taking steps to make sure that we are properly prepared for exit on October 31.

We have a new government now, and under this new government we've been taking steps to make sure that we are properly prepared for exit on October 31.

Sadly, there are some in the House of Commons who think they can try to prevent us leaving on October 31st. And as long as they continue to try to make that argument, then that actually gives some heart to some in the European Union that we won't leave on October 31st. The sooner that everyone recognises that we will leave on that day, the quicker we can move towards a good deal in everyone's interests.

It's certainly the case that there will be bumps in the road, some element of disruption in the event of no-deal.

We didn't vote to leave without a deal. That wasn't the message of the campaign I helped lead. During that campaign, we said we should do a deal with the EU and be part of the network of free trade deals that covers all Europe, from Iceland to Turkey.

There won't be any delays, we are determined that we are going to leave on October 31st, and it's my job to make sure the country is ready.

No deal is now a very real prospect.

We need to be absolutely resolute in tackling racism and prejudice of all kinds

If there are Islamophobes in the Conservative Party - and there are - we should root them out.