David Cameron's 'For the Record': Michael Gove had to apologize and the spad had to go – The Times, Thetimes.co.uk

I had one overriding test for reshuffles. When your private secretary says to you on the following day that “X, the new health secretary, is coming to see you,” do you think, “Yes, great, that’s the person I want running the health service,” or do you think, “Why is this person coming into my office?”

So one question that reshuffle posed was how I felt when I heard the words, “The education secretary is coming to see you,” and sawMichael Govebounding in. In many ways I felt energised. Michael was the reforming ministerof his generation. Just days before the reshuffle he would be hosting a huge Education Reform Summit at Lancaster House at which ministers from around the world testified to the…