James Chapman (Mail) (@jameschappers) Told Clegg 'stormed in' to PM and insisted on a joint Gove/Laws op-ed on free school meals, which Gove then made 'particularly ludicrous' May 15 , 20149.39am BST Q: Wouldn't it be a good idea if, when people vote, they could also specify which parties they would like to see parties form a coalition with if that proved necessary?
This is a lesson that even countries such as Singapore and China, which Gove frequently praises, are taking on board, and are making radical changes to their testing regimes as a result.
His pronouncements are music to the ears of large swaths of the press who paint teachers as lazy, leftwing reprobates, who habitually go on strike and snooze their way through long summer holidays (which Gove, inevitably, wants rid of).
Less well aired have been concerns about the process from which Gove hopes coherence will emerge.
On Saturday, the justice secretary Michael Gove, who is campaigning for Brexit, stopped short of ruling himself out as the source of comments the paper said were made by the Queen at a meeting five years ago, at which Gove was present.
In his lengthy 13-page speech, Gove vowed to allocate £100 million ($132 million) per week to the embattled National Health System – a promise that had a slightly hollow ring to it after the Vote Leave campaign, which Gove masterminded, said exiting the European Union would mean an extra £350 million a week to spend on the NHS.
There are few issues on which a Gove-ite and a teaching union representative will agree.
He then asked Mr Gove what steps his department were taking over the school - to which Mr Gove replied that he had to be careful not to prejudice the police investigation.
"It does also mean that we need ministers who drop the divisive rhetoric which Mr Gove has used in the past, like 'draining the swamp', or people on a 'conveyor-belt to terrorism'.
