If there are Islamophobes in the Conservative Party - and there are - we should root them out. - Michael Gove
" "If there are Islamophobes in the Conservative Party - and there are - we should root them out.
About Michael Gove
Michael Andrew Gove, Lord Gove of Torry (born 26 August 1967) is a British journalist, editor of The Spectator magazine since October 2024 and Conservative politician. During his parliamentary career (he is a former MP), Gove has served as Secretary of State for Education (2010–2014), Secretary of State for Justice (2015–2016) and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2017–2019). He served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (2021–July 2022, October 2022–July 2024). An author and former columnist for The Times, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath from 2005 until the 2024 general election.
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Gove: I think the people in this country have had enough of experts, with organisations from acronyms, saying—
Interviewer: They've had enough of experts? The people have had enough of experts? What do you mean by that?
Gove: People from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.
Inteviewer: The people of this country have had enough of experts?
Gove: Because these people are the same ones who got consistently wrong what was happening.
Interviewer: This is proper Trump politics this, isn't it?
Gove: No it's actually a faith in the—
Inteviewer: It's Oxbridge Trump.
Gove: It's a faith, Faisal, in the British people to make the right decision.
I believe our country would be freer, fairer and better off outside the EU. And if, at this moment of decision, I didn't say what I believe, I would not be true to my convictions or my country. By leaving the EU we can take control. Indeed, we can show the rest of Europe the way to flourish. Instead of grumbling and complaining about the things we can't change and growing resentful and bitter, we can shape an optimistic, forward-looking and genuinely internationalist alternative to the path the EU is going down.