Political Career
Gove joined the Conservative Party at university and was secretary of Aberdeen South Young Conservatives. He has helped to write speeches for Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet ministers, including Peter Lilley and Michael Howard. When applying for a job at the Conservative Research Department he was told he was "insufficiently political" and "insufficiently Conservative", consequently he turned to journalism.
Gove was previously chairman of Policy Exchange, a conservative think tank launched in 2002.
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