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Michael Gove gets peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list • Apr. 12, 2025, 4:39 AM ET (BBC)
Michael Gove to ‘be given peerage’ in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list • Apr. 11, 2025, 3:04 AM ET (The Telegraph)
Michael Gove’s son reveals ‘emotional baggage’ after his parents’ divorce • Apr. 10, 2025, 5:17 AM ET (The Telegraph)

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Also Known As Michael Andrew Gove
Born August 26, 1967 (age 57) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Title / Office lord chancellor (2015-2016), United Kingdom
Political Affiliation Conservative Party
Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
prime minister of United Kingdom
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William Cobbett
British journalist
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
British economist and journalist
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
Frederick Forsyth
British author
Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
Guy Burgess
British diplomat and spy
Douglas Richard Hurd
British diplomat
Sir Leon Brittan
British politician
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Cameron, David
David Cameron
prime minister of United Kingdom
Theresa May
Theresa May
prime minister of United Kingdom
Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak
prime minister of United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
prime minister of United Kingdom
Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon
British foreign secretary
The “Iron Lady”
Margaret Thatcher
prime minister of United Kingdom
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Robert Peel
prime minister of United Kingdom
Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom
Arthur James Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st earl of Balfour
prime minister of United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
prime minister of United Kingdom