Michael Gove is returning to The Times as a columnist

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Michael Gove

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Michael Gove.

Former justice secretary Michael Gove will return to The Times as a columnist and book reviewer next month, the newspaper has announced.

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A brief in Monday's edition of The Times revealed Gove's return to journalism after his failed bid to become the next British prime minister.

The Leave campaigner is currently a backbench MP after being exiled from government by prime minister Theresa May in July.

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Gove left The Times in 2005 after being elected as the MP for Surrey Heath. He continued as a columnist for the newspaper until 2010, when he was made education secretary in David Cameron's coalition government.

Gove's wife Sarah Vine is also a newspaper columnist, writing regularly for the Daily Mail.

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