Health and Education

Part of Debate on the Address – in the House of Commons at 5:31 pm on 11 December 2008.

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Photo of Michael Gove Michael Gove Shadow Secretary of State (Children, Schools and Families) 5:31, 11 December 2008

The Secretary of State will have an opportunity in a second.

I am afraid, however, that like many talented young people the Secretary of State has fallen in with a bad crowd—in his case, the Brownites. Since getting in with this gang, the Secretary of State has been determined to live according to its members' aggressive rituals, the most important of which is the drawing of dividing lines. He has tried to draw dividing lines on all the issues that I have mentioned, although in doing so he merely exposes his own weakness. He is just like a gang member who wields a weapon but only harms himself.