John Bald: Reflections on the Gove/Cummings legacy for our schools

John Bald: Reflections on the Gove/Cummings legacy for our schools

John Bald is a former Ofsted inspector. He is Vice-President of the Conservative Education Society. Sarah Vine’s How Not to Be a Political Wife is interesting about her relationship with her husband, Michael Gove – reader, he sulks – but is even more so about Gove’s relationship with Dominic Cummings, which was the reason I bought the book. Michael Gove’s tenure at the DfE has been a puzzle to me. I had just one private meeting with him, and fou…