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 had won a scholarship. In October 2012, Gove wrote an apology letter to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class. From 1985 to 1988 he read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, during which time he served as President of the Oxford Union. He was awarded an upper second-class degree. He became a trainee reporter at "The Press and Journal" in Aberdeen, where he spent several months on strike in the 1989–1990 dispute over union recognition and representation. He joined "The Times" in 1996 as a leader writer and assumed posts as its comment editor, news editor, Saturday editor