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My battle with Michael Gove’s Blob

The Education Secretary is right about the teaching establishment – show weakness, and they’ll destroy you

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

Michael Gove has been under fire this week for ‘sacking’ Sally Morgan as chair of Ofsted. You’d think he’d be within his rights not to re-appoint her, given that she’s a former aid of Tony Blair’s and her three-year term has come to an end. But no. This has become Exhibit A in the latest case for the prosecution against the Education Secretary, namely, that he’s too partisan, too ideological.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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