It’s not about class, it’s about the classroom, says Gove [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 06 March 2010
Michael Gove never quite fits into the “Tory toffs” story. The adopted son of a mother who worked in an Aberdeen jeweller’s shop and a father who skinned fish in the family business, as a youngster he wore a kilt, not a bow tie. He never joined the tennis club, went to pony camp or had a nanny, and he still prefers haggis to steak.
At Oxford, while David Cameron and George Osborne honed their drinking skills in the Bullingdon Club, he concentrated on debating as president of the Oxford Union. When, on graduating, they took jobs in Conservative Central Office, he was soon on strike as a trainee journalist at The Press and Journal in Aberdeen.
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