Michael Gove "vicious and aggressive" death threats due to Gove's education reforms, and said she had considered moving with their two children to Italy as a result of said threats. Before the coalition government, in 2010, a YouGov poll of teachers' voting intentions found that 33% were Tory and 32% were Labour; four years later, a poll found that only 16% were Tory and 57% were Labour. On 15 July 2014, Gove's four-year stint in charge of the Department for Education came to an end when he was replaced as Secretary of State for Education by former Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan in
Michael Gove life had been transformed by social workers as a result of his adoption at the age of four months old. While serving as Education Secretary, Gove asked Sir Martin Narey, a former director general of prisons and chief executive of Barnardo's, to conduct a review of social work education. Sir Martin subsequently made 18 recommendations, which he said could be implemented at "minimal cost", for the reform of social work education. Sir Martin called for more emphasis to be placed on practical skills and suggested that some of the students recruited were not up to the job. Sir Martin found