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 Trump as President of the United States, Gove's interview and consequent defence of it has been seen by some as praising the President-elect unduly, and a photograph of Gove giving a "thumbs-up" to Trump was widely mocked on social media. In October 2017, Gove issued an apology for a joke which compared going on the "Today" programme with a sexual encounter with Harvey Weinstein. He was criticised by MPs of all parties who felt allegations of sexual abuse were not a suitable subject for jokes. Gove is generally considered as combining socially liberal views—e.g. on gay marriage —with a harder