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Theresa May could survive the palace coup which appeared to be unfolding at breakneck speed on Saturday night, as the Cabinet ministers who were frontrunners to take over as “caretaker” leaders publicly disavow the plot.

Michael Gove is dead to me. As a friend I will always love and cherish him. But as a politician he has lost every last scintilla of my respect. Yes, he was a brave and committed Education Secretary; yes, he is probably the most literate, charming, polite, well-read, thoughtful, and eloquent senior members of Theresa May’s generally rubbish Government; but in his current role as Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) his performance has been utterly shaming. And cowardly. And dangerous.

Last night in Parliament, Environment Secretary Michael Gove made a barnstormer of a speech. But…

‘An all-party group of senior MPs’ are plotting to sabotage Brexit by ‘starving the [British] government of cash and creating a Donald Trump-style shutdown’.

Lord North is often held to be Britain’s worst ever prime minister because he was the one that lost America. But I really think this claim does the current incumbent a terrible disservice. Lord North, after all, has been vindicated

Every day looks more and more like an Establishment conspiracy to destroy Brexit. Now Kenneth Clarke has just confirmed it: he has announced that he is going to vote in support of Theresa May’s Brexit In Name Only deal.

Environment secretary Michael Gove is said to be leading a group of pro-Brexit Cabinet ministers to pressure the prime minister into renegotiating the deal with Brussels.

Brexit-supporting Cabinet minister Michael Gove has vowed to take back control of Brexit Britain’s territorial waters in a new Fisheries Bill, and to devolve significant powers from the European Union to Scotland’s local parliament. 

UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove used his Conservative Party conference speech on Monday to describe Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as a “Moscow-loving, Hamas-hugging, high-taxing, moderate-bashing, job-destroying, national anthem-avoiding, Nato-hating, class war-provoking one-man museum of economic folly.”

Lord Adonis — former Minister of State for Education under Tony Blair — has issued a new fatwa on Brexit: those responsible must be investigated by public inquiry and banned from holding political office ever again.

Leave-supporting farmers in historic Exmoor have set out proposals which will allow them to thrive and reinvigorate the natural environment after Brexit.

The environment secretary has revealed plans to take back control of UK fisheries, decide how much stock to allocate to European boats, and give a “fairer share” to British vessels after Brexit.

UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove has declared war on crony capitalism.

Brexiteer Cabinet members have backed down and supported the Prime Minister’s plan for a customs union “backstop” which could keep the UK tied to European Union (EU) rules for years after the divorce.

The British government is seeking to use Brexit as an opportunity to introduce the long-discussed labelling of meat to indicate whether the animals were humanely stunned before slaughter, or whether this treatment was withheld for religious reasons, it said Wednesday.

The government will scrap the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after Brexit and instead reward farmers for being “environmentally friendly”.

A senior cabinet minister has told hundreds of Conservative Friends of Israel supporters that “anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism”.

Leave campaigner and Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Michael Gove has shocked the British fishing industry by walking back a pledge to end the exploitation of Britain’s waters by EU vessels, saying they “will still be able to catch large amounts of fish” on a visit to Denmark.

Nigel Farage has warned that “the old alliance of big business and a Tory government” is preparing to sell out the public on immigration.

Disgruntled junior Tory ministers could resign from their posts to force out the “lame horse” prime minister who is propped up by a “selfish” Cabinet, sources have claimed.

LONDON (AP) — Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed ministers to her shaky government Sunday, as some Conservative colleagues rallied to support her — and others said her days were numbered after last week’s disastrous election. May is seeking

Britain should move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and have the Queen open the new premises in a show of solidarity with the Jewish state, senior Conservative Michael Gove has said.

My first reaction on new British Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet appointments: I’m happy, hope you’re happy too… As an ardent Brexiteer, certainly, I feel a lot more optimistic about the future than I did two days when I penned this

London (AFP) – Britain’s Interior Minister Theresa May emerged as the clear frontrunner Tuesday as lawmakers started picking a new prime minister, while shockwaves from the Brexit vote hit the property market and sent the pound plunging.

Andrea Leadsom is emerging as the Brexit-supporters’ Conservative leadership candidate of choice, following the apparent betrayal of Boris Johnson by Justice Minister Michael Gove. Leadsom has risen to second favourite according to the bookies odds, currently priced at 5/2 and

One of the many puzzling tweets I’ve seen on the subject of Michael Gove’s candidacy for the Conservative party leadership is this one: @WikiGuido @JamesDelingpole Now going to focus on #anyonebutGove ghastly backstabber! — Allie Wytchwood (@wytchwooda) July 1, 2016

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Conservative Party leadership candidate Michael Gove has delivered his first major leadership bid speech. Speaking at the Policy Exchange think tank, he launched into an impassioned defence of free market capitalism, while exposing the effects of globalisation and freedom of

A Breitbart London straw poll of potential Conservative Party leadership candidates has resulted in the Brexiteering Andrea Leadsom receiving 50 per cent of nearly 8,000 individual votes

Michael Gove has declared himself a candidate in the Conservative party leadership race and I couldn’t be more pleased or more surprised.

We’re all entitled to our opinions as to who’d make the better Prime Minister – Boris Johnson or Andrea Leadsom. But there’s one thing on which must agree. Better either of the above – or, frankly, a Cocker Spaniel – than the (current

The European Union referendum, no matter how you look at it, was won because of the efforts of one man: UKIP leader Nigel Farage. But Nigel Farage and the 17.5 million people who attracted over 25 years to the Brexit

Last week a coalition of Brexit politicians including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove won the biggest popular mandate in British history. More people – 17,410,742 – voted Leave last Thursday than have voted for anything else in Britain, ever. No

Why wasn’t the British government better prepared for Brexit? This is the question being asked right now by all the disgruntled Remainers who can’t quite get over the fact that they didn’t win

Without the EU, the environment would suffer greatly: or so we are told by EU-funded organisations like the WWF and the RSPB. So let’s briefly focus on just one of the invaluable conservation projects on which the EU thinks it’s important to

Former Prime Minister Sir John Major, who saw his own leadership of the country fatally damaged by infighting over the European Union (EU) has attacked “Britain’s most popular politician” for his campaigning to get Britain out of the EU. Sir