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Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

~Michael Gove

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As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

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Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.

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Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

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It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.

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I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.'

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I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.

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The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.

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We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.

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A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: August 26th, 1967

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