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Gove Leaves Education Job As Hague Quits

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Michael Gove will leave his job as Education Secretary in the biggest reshuffle of the top jobs in Government for four years.

The 46-year-old, a controversial figure among teachers, has been swapped to the role of Commons Chief Whip - a move described as "definitely a demotion" by Sky's Political Editor Adam Boulton.

In a shake-up described as a cull of the "pale, male and stale", a number of women were promoted into key posts, as has been expected, ahead of next year's General Election.

Nicky MorganEducation Secretary Michael Gove Nicky Morgan takes over from Michael Gove as Education Secretary

The first to secure a high-profile role was Nicky Morgan from Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Minister for Women to fill the vacancy left by Mr Gove. It is a rapid rise for an MP who has only held a seat in the House of Commons for four years.

Liz Truss, also only an MP since 2010, has moved from Education Minister to Environment Secretary to replace Owen Paterson, who was criticised for his response to the flooding crisis over the winter.

Esther McVey, another of the 2010 intake, had been tipped for a move but remains as Employment Minister, although she will now attend Cabinet.

Britain's new Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs Liz Truss leaves 10 Downing Street Liz Truss is the Government's new Environment Secretary

Anna Soubry has been promoted to Defence Minister with Claire Perry going to Transport as Parliamentary Under Secretary.

Priti Patel has been made Exchequer Secretary at the Treasury and Penny Mordaunt has become a Communities and Local Government minister. Amber Rudd has become an Energy and Climate Change minister.

The wide-ranging reshuffle also sees the shock departure of William Hague, who has stepped down as Foreign Secretary.

Esther McVey Esther McVey stays at employment but is given Cabinet role

The 53-year-old will become Leader of the House Of Commons before standing down as an MP at the next General Election in 2015.

He is replaced by outgoing Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, whose job has been taken by Michael Fallon.

Mr Hague denied Mr Hammond's appointment marked a more Eurosceptic approach in Government while Mr Hammond said: "I'm going to focus on making sure that we have a successful renegotiation with our European partners.

"I don't think the way to enter a negotiation is to start issuing threats."

David Cameron Returns Early From Holiday To Deal With The Escalating Syrian CrisisDowning Street Prepares For Cabinet Reshuffle Philip Hammond replaces William Hague as Foreign Secretary

Mr Hague will now help to coordinate Government policy and become a "leading campaigner in key constituencies".

He will also be the Prime Minister's special representative on preventing sexual violence in conflict, following his work with UN special envoy and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie.

Sky's Political Correspondent Sophy Ridge said: "When they said this would be a significant reshuffle, they actually meant it."

Dominic Grieve lost his role as Attorney General and has been replaced by Jeremy Wright, while Policing Minister Damian Green also lost his job, with Mike Penning getting a ministerial role in the Home Office .

Ken Clarke Ken Clarke pictured arriving at No 10 on Monday

Mr Cameron has also announced Lord Hill will be the UK's candidate for European Commissioner, to replace Baroness Ashton in Brussels, leaving his post as Leader of the House of Lords. Baroness Tina Stowell will become the new Leader of the Lords.

Matt Hancock, a key ally of Chancellor George Osborne, takes on the post of Minister of State for Business, Enterprise and Energy from Mr Fallon and will also take on the job of Minister for Portsmouth, attending Cabinet.

Mark Harper, who was last seen resigning as immigration minister after he was discovered to be employing an illegal immigrant as a cleaner, has returned as Work and Pensions minister.

Liam Fox, who had been tipped for a return, confirmed he had been approached to be Foreign Office Minister but had turned down the offer.

Global Summit To End Sexual Violence In Conflict Mr Hague with Angelina Jolie and US Secretary of State John Kerry

Meanwhile, Ken Clarke is retiring from Government at 74, and on Monday announced he was stepping down as minister without portfolio, bringing to an end a front bench career stretching back to 1972.

Speaking shortly after Mr Hague announced his departure, the Prime Minister paid tribute to him as a "first class Foreign Secretary" and  "a close confidante, a wise counsellor and a great friend".

Welsh Secretary David Jones has been replaced by Stephen Crabb and Transport Minister Stephen Hammond and Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd are also out.

International Development Minister Alan Duncan is standing down at his own request, while Universities Minister David Willetts has also stood down and has been replaced by Greg Clark.

In a shake-up of the Civil Service, Sir Bob Kerslake has stepped down as permanent secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government, his role as head of the Civil Service will be handed to Sir Jeremy Heywood. 

A new role of Civil Service chief executive is to be created and will report to Sir Jeremy.


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Snowdon Gives 130 Famous Portraits To Gallery

Lord Snowdon has donated more than 100 of his portraits featuring stars such as David Bowie and Julie Christie to the National Portrait Gallery.

Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Maggie Smith, murder mystery writer Agatha Christie and artist Henry Moore are among the faces featured.

The gift of 130 photographs from Lord Snowdon's archive is one of the largest the London gallery has ever received.

It will be the first time several of the shots have ever been on display.

Vita Sackville-West English author and poet Vita Sackville-West

Lord Snowdon, who was married to Princess Margaret from 1960 to 1978, turned his lens on the worlds of theatre, fashion and high society when he began his career in the 1950s.

The 84-year-old is known for his six-decade association with Vogue and in the early 1960s worked with the Sunday Times Magazine on documentary subjects from mental health to loneliness.

Nell Dunn Writer Nell Dunn

Other portraits visitors will see feature actors John Hurt and Alan Bates, writers Kingsley Amis and Graham Greene, musicians Yehudi Menuhin and George Melly and artist Barbara Hepworth.

The gallery's director Sandy Nairne said: "The National Portrait Gallery is delighted that Lord Snowdon should have made such a generous further gift of prints to the collection.

Lord Snowdon The image of Lord Snowdon was taken by Cecil Beaton. Pic: V&A Images

"These are wonderful portrait images of some most creative and engaging contributors to Britain in the second half of the 20th century."

:: Snowdon: A Life In View, runs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from September 26, 2014 to June 21, 2015.


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Cole Whirlwind Wedding Defended By Roberts

Cheryl Cole's former Girls Aloud bandmate Nicola Roberts has defended her friend's decision to marry her boyfriend after just three months.

Cole announced on Monday that she and French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini had tied the knot in a small, private ceremony on the Caribbean island of Mustique.

Cole, 31, posted a photo on Twitter revealing the news, alongside a photo of her engagement and wedding rings.

The singer has been criticised by some on social media for heading down the aisle so quickly but Roberts said the newlywed is "happier than ever".

Cheryl Cole and Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini Cheryl and Jean-Bernard pictured in London in May

She also posted a message on Instagram which read: "You can be in a relationship for two years and feel nothing; you can be in a relationship for two months and feel everything.

"Time is not a measure of quality; of infatuation, or of love."

There has been speculation that Cole may be pregnant but her agent has told Sky News that this is untrue.

The X Factor judge has kept her ex-husband Ashley Cole's surname since they divorced in 2010 but on Monday night changed her Twitter handle from @cherylcole to @cherylofficial.

Cheryl Tweedy wedding ring Cole shared this image of her rings. Pic: cherylcole.com

Cole also posted a message saying: "Thank you for all your kind messages and well wishes."

She has not officially confirmed whether she will become Mrs Fernandez-Versini.


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GCHQ 'Can Seize Private Facebook Photographs'

Exclusive: Sky's Man Goes Inside GCHQ

Updated: 11:04am UK, Monday 19 May 2014

By Tim Marshall, Diplomatic Editor

As I crossed the various levels of security required to get into GCHQ, signs went up around the building. Staff were warned that an outsider was inside, and to be aware of that if engaged in any sensitive conversations.

This rare access for a journalist appears to be part of a conscious but cautious effort to explain the workings of the intelligence agency, in the wake of the allegations by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

Most of the interior of Britain's signal intelligence agency looks similar to any large modern office building, but there are constant reminders of the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

This is true of the architecture. The building is referred to by both media and the intelligence community as "the doughnut".

From the outside it is somewhat foreboding, ringed by high fences topped with razor wire. But inside the colours are calming, the ceilings high, and the corridors surprisingly light.

The main internal circular corridor, known somewhat affectionately as "the street" is a busy thoroughfare and a reminder that thousands of people work here. GCHQ is Cheltenham's biggest employer.

On the ground floor, open plan offices look out on to a circular garden complete with water feature and smoking area.

From there you can see a variety of satellite dishes and myriad aerials perched on the roof of the second floor.

It is rumoured the design of the circular walls enclosing the garden were built in a way which limits how much sound from conversations will carry upwards in the direction of interested parties who might be listening high above the building.

Inside, the juxtaposition of the ordinary and extraordinary continues. Next to one of the coffee bars is a pop-up "help with your expenses" desk, which is near a small museum housing the first Enigma coding/decoding machine.

The contraption, which cracked the German codes in the Second World War was purchased in Berlin and brought to the UK in the 1930s,  a move described as "the best £30 Britain has ever spent".

You can also find notes on JRR Tolkien's application to join the Bletchley Park code breakers. His services "were not called upon".

It is a state-of-the-art building, but there may be a few dents in the doughnut.

Staff are stirred, if not shaken in the aftermath of the Snowden furore. For more than a year now there have been allegations that they spend their time engaged in possibly illegal mass surveillance and bulk-trawling through our emails and phone calls.

Time and again officials repeated to me: "Everything we do is lawful, necessary, and proportionate."

This view was recently upheld by Sir Anthony May, the Interception of Communications Commissioner.

However, it appears the agency does indeed engage in scooping up vast amounts of data.

What was lost in the headlines was that officers do not actually look at the text of emails or listen to phone conversations without a warrant signed by a Cabinet Minister and overseen by senior members of the judiciary.

"Don't you actually think your hands are tied?" I asked a senior official, who replied: "Our hands are tied appropriately."

Another added: "We are not struggling against our bonds."

Despite the Snowden affair, and the possibility the agency did not act in the spirit of the laws governing it, the damage to public trust in Britain's spooks appears limited.

Polls suggest that a majority of the public appears not to be concerned about the powers held by GCHQ, nor its methods.

Nevertheless, the presence of a journalist inside the headquarters of an agency (which did not officially exist until the 1980s) indicates that management understands it needs to explain GCHQ more fully.

Staff appear to be at best irritated, and at worst hurt, by suggestions they have acted illegally. They are keen that there should be a better understanding of not just what they do, but why they do it.

For example, if the 'opposition' is developing weapons of various types, including surveillance weapons, it is part of their work to find out and develop counter measures.

About a third of analysts' work is in counter-terrorism. The rest is in cyber security, support for military operations, operations against serious criminals, and a variety of other tasks.

In the public domain, but not widely known, is the fact that more than 200 staff have been awarded medals for service in a military theatre.

Many of these have been won during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The staff were remarkably normal. Some in suits, some in shorts, none of them looking like Daniel Craig.

I did ask to see the "big room with the map of the world on a screen and a guy stroking a white cat" but permission was refused. The room does exist but, alas, the cat does not.


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MP Top Trumps: David Cameron's Rising Stars

The Prime Minister's battle plan for the General Election begins with a Cabinet reshuffle. Find out the ones to watch.

Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough and new Education Secretary Nicky Morgan MP

Who: Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough since 2010
Born and brought up: Kingston upon Thames, Surbiton
Education: Jurisprudence at St Hugh's College, Oxford
Before politics: Solicitor on corporate law, specialising in mergers and acquisitions. Joined Tories in 1989 and was chair of Wessex Young Conservatives and vice-chair for Battersea Conservatives.
Politics: Fought for Islington South and Finsbury seat in 2001. Fought for Loughborough seat in 2005.
Constituency campaigns: Cash for potholes, entrepreneurs, housing, local libraries, business.
Old jobs: Assistant whip, financial secretary to the Treasury, minister for women.
New job: Education Secretary - continues with women and equalities brief. Tells Sky News she is "very excited"
Home life: Married to an architect. One son.
Known for: Saying university isn't a rite of passage, praising Loughborough students on rag week, against same-sex marriage, safe pair of hands, time in the whip's office.
X Factor: Mother, Osbornite, loyalist.

Britain's new Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs Liz Truss leaves 10 Downing Street Liz Truss MP

Who: Liz Truss, MP since 2010 for South West Norfolk
Born and brought up: Yorkshire
Education: Philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford University
Before politics: Trained as an accountant. Worked in the energy and telecoms industry. Member of the Conservative Party for 17 years. Proved blue credentials as deputy director of the right-wing think-tank Reform.
Politics: Fought for a seat in 2001 and 2005. Published two books arguing for return of entrepreneurship and need to learn from rising nations.
Constituency campaigns: Better roads, faster broadband, reliable energy supplies, small businesses.
Old job: Education minister, campaigning for a stronger emphasis on academic subjects.
New job: Environment Secretary
Home life: Lives in London. Married with two daughters.
Known for: Attention to detail, unflappable manner.
X Factor: Mother (rare in Parliament, rarer in Cabinet). At 38, she is the youngest ever female Cabinet member.

Breast Cancer Care Strawberry Tea fundraising campaign Priti Patel MP

Who: Priti Patel, MP since 2010 for Witham, Essex
Born and brought up: South Harrow, Ruislip, Watford
Education: Economics, Keele University. Postgraduate at University of Essex
Before politics: Director of corporate communications for PR consultancy. Press officer for William Hague.
Politics: Fought for a seat in 2005, won different seat in 2010. Against prisoner voting. For capital punishment.
Constituency campaigns: Small businesses, affordable homes, transport infrastructure
New Job: Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
Home life: Lives in Witham and London. Married with a son.
Known for: Independently minded. Unpredictable.
X Factor: A rebel. Admired by backbenchers. Mother.

Cabinet reshuffle Esther McVey Esther McVey MP

Who: Esther McVey, MP for Wirral West since 2010
Born and brought up: Liverpool
Education: Law at Queen Mary University, London. Radio journalism at City University, London. MSc in corporate governance at Liverpool John Moores University
Before politics: TV presenter and producer, director of her father's demolition business and set up own training business for SMEs.
Politics: Fought for seat in 2005. Was parliamentary under-secretary for disabled people. Worked for Chris Grayling and had a Work and Pensions brief.
Constituency campaigns: Small businesses, youth unemployment
Old job: Employment minister
New job: Continues as minister for Employment and Disabilities but will attend Cabinet
Home life: Lives in West Kirby and London. Unmarried.
Known for: Friend of Kate McCann and helped set up Madeleine McCann Fund. First Tory MP on Merseyside since 1997.
X Factor: Feisty and outspoken. Liverpudlian accent ticks the Northern box. Strong media performer. Nominated for Merseyside Woman of the Year and Cheshire Woman of the Year.

Penny Mordaunt MP and her dog at The Westminister Dog Of The Year Competition 2012 Penny Mordaunt MP

Who: Penny Mordaunt, MP for Portsmouth North since 2010
Born and brought up: Torquay, Portsmouth
Education: Philosophy at University of Reading
Before politics: Magician's assistant, communications director for Kensington and Chelsea Council, worked for Freight Transport Association, director of National Lottery, director of Diabetes UK, head of foreign press for George W Bush's 2000 campaign.
Politics: Head of Youth for Tories. First fought for a seat in 2005. Care and quality of life for elderly, healthcare, arts, space.
Constituency campaigns: Portsmouth Naval Base and Royal Navy fleet. Charities. Restoring Grade-II listed manor.
Current job: Ministerial aide
New Job: Communities and Local Government Minister
Home life: Lives in Port Solent with partner and breeds Burmese cats. Sub-lieutenant in Royal Navy Reserve.
Known for: Belly-flop on TV diving competition Splash! Second woman to give thank you after Queen's Speech - in it, she talked about testicles. Supporting women in Armed Forces. Named after frigate HMS Penelope. Critic of women-only shortlists. Supporter of homeopathy. member of British Astronomical Association.
X Factor: Have-a-go attitude.


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Police Face Probe After Couple Stabbed To Death

By Adele Robinson, Midlands Correspondent

An investigation is under way after a couple were found stabbed to death 20 minutes after emergency services left their home.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is looking into how West Midlands Police handled the incident.

Pin Chang, 58, and his wife Quoi Chang, 50, died at their home in Hermitage Road, Solihull, in the early hours of July 7.

The couple's 23-year-old son was found with serious injuries at the property. He is currently under police guard in hospital in connection with the deaths.

The West Midlands Ambulance Service was first called to the home by a resident at the property at 3.39am. Medics then alerted police who arrived at 3.56am.

Forensics officers were seen at the house

The police officers subsequently left the property at 4.48am, and the ambulance crew at 5.06am.

It is understood that the decision was made to refer the son for a mental health assessment, to be carried out at a later date.

However, a 999 call was made 11 minutes later, at 5.17am. Ambulance crews then returned to the scene at 5.26am, 20 minutes after leaving.

Police officers arrived at the property at 5.33am, 45 minutes after leaving.

Pin Chang and Quoi Chang were then found at the property with fatal stab injuries.


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Nurse 'Plotted To Kill And Eat' Teenage Girl

A nurse bought an axe as he planned to chop and eat a girl he believed to be just 14 years old, a court has heard.

Dale Bolinger, 57, used a fetish website to discuss beheading and eating women and girls for sexual gratification, his trial at Canterbury Crown Court was told.

Prosecutor Martin Yale said Bolinger, formerly from Canterbury, had thought he was chatting to a 14-year-old Mexican called Eva and tried to persuade her travel over from Germany to meet him.

Bolinger allegedly told the girl: "The idea of making love and then eating you is a very great turn on.

"I have been called a very generous lover and I would be very generous to you before I prepped you for the table."

On September 17, 2012 - the day before she was due to meet him - Bolinger bought an axe and then, on September 18, he went to Ashford International Station to pick "Eva" up, the court was told.

She did not arrive and her identity has never been established.

The court also heard that Bolinger told other users that he had eaten a 39-year-old black woman and a five-year-old child.

"There were discussions about how much more tender the meat is from children," Mr Yale said.

The chats with "Eva" were uncovered by the FBI's New York office, which investigates webchat rooms discussing the rape, killing and cannibalism of women, prosecutor Martin Yale told the jury.

They found the email address being used was from a computer in Kent and passed the information on to local police.

Kent Police traced the account to Bolinger, whose home and computer was searched.

Police found discs containing indecent images of children which had been photoshopped and labelled: "Dinner; one in, one waiting; the BBQ; the BBQ2 and BBQ3."

Bolinger admitted the pictures were his but he insisted he had gone to the train station because he was worried about the girl he had contacted.

If she had arrived, he said, he would have gone straight to the police.

He was subsequently arrested and charged with one count of attempting to meet a child under the age of 16 following sexual grooming.

The prosecutor said it was not the first time Bolinger had tried to act out his fantasies.

Bolinger, he told the jury, had pleaded guilty in February to administering poison or a noxious substance to a woman after putting a cloth soaked in dry cleaning fluid over a female friend's mouth in July 2010.


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Payday Loan Caps To Cut The Cost Of Borrowing

The City regulator is to impose caps on payday loans from January to tackle abuses in the quick-credit market, in a move set to cost the industry £420m of its annual revenue.

The headline measure was a limit in the overall cost of a loan, which the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said should never exceed 100% of the total amount borrowed.

For example, if a borrower was to take out a loan of £300, the person's liability would not be more than £600.

Fixed default fees were also to be capped at £15, the regulator said, with interest on unpaid balances and default fees not exceeding 0.8% per day of the outstanding amount.

News of the restrictions - reported by Sky News on Monday night ahead of the announcement - prompted the industry body the Consumer Finance Association (CFA) to warn that the limits could force many of its members out of business, driving customers towards loan sharks instead as lending criteria was tightened.

The FCA admitted the measures were likely to cost the payday sector £420m annually but its chief executive Martin Wheatley dismissed the industry's claim as a "scare story" - telling Sky News the caps would only kill off those firms preying on their customers.

He said: "For the many people that struggle to repay their payday loans every year this is a giant leap forward.

"From January next year, if you borrow £100 for 30 days and pay back on time, you will not pay more than £24 in fees and charges and someone taking the same loan for 14 days will pay no more than £11.20. That's a significant saving.

"For those who struggle with their repayments, we are ensuring that someone borrowing £100 will never pay back more than £200 in any circumstance.

"There have been many strong and competing views to take into account, but I am confident we have found the right balance.

"Alongside our other new rules for payday firms - affordability tests and limits on rollovers and continuous payment authorities - the cap will help drive up standards in a sector that badly needs to improve how it treats its customers."

The measures were announced 24 hours after Wonga - the country's biggest payday lender - confirmed its new chairman was to lead a drive to improve standards in the wake of damaging revelations the firm created fake legal letters to threaten borrowers in arrears.

Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy said of the caps: "Up until now, payday lenders have had the green light to send people into a spiral of unmanageable debt.

"The cap will help limit the scale of debts but its success will depend on enforcement and is part of a raft of measures, including limiting rollovers, that the FCA must make sure lenders are sticking to."


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Tory MP's Half-Brother Charged With Sex Abuse

The half-brother of Conservative MP John Whittingdale has been charged with alleged historical sex abuse.

Scotland Yard said Charles Napier was charged along with a second man, Richard Alston, 69, from Suffolk.

The charges date back to the late 1970s and concern an alleged victim who was 11 years old at the time.

Napier, aged 67, from Dorset, is accused of one count of inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency.

Alston has been charged with five counts of indecent assault and three counts of gross indecency with a child.

The pair are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on July 29.

They were arrested by police last year under Operation Cayacos, one of two strands of a wider criminal investigation called Operation Fairbank.

Cayacos was launched after Labour MP Tom Watson in 2012 used parliamentary privilege to claim that a file of evidence used to convict Peter Righton of importing child pornography in 1992 contained "clear evidence" of a sex abuse gang.

A separate investigation, Operation Fernbridge, is looking at claims linked to Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London.


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'Trojan Horse' School's Board Resigns

School 'Trojan Horse': A Timeline

Updated: 5:15pm UK, Tuesday 15 July 2014

:: March 7

A letter is sent to Birmingham City Council, apparently from an Islamic extremist, giving details of a "takeover" of Birmingham schools known as Operation Trojan Horse. The plot, it says, has seen four head teachers removed from post and replaced with Islamist appointments.

It highlights 12 other schools that are to be targeted. The letter has now been widely denounced as fake but is thought to have been written by someone who was trying to draw attention to the problem.

:: March 10

Birmingham City Council launches a five-point response plan announcing a six-month investigation into allegations to be led by former head teacher Ian Kershaw. A review group will oversee the work.

:: March 22

Park View Academy, one of the schools at the centre of the allegations is to be placed in special measures, according to senior education sources, who leak the details of an Ofsted inspection.

::April 14

Birmingham City Council announces Peter Clarke, the former Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism boss, will oversee the Trojan Horse inquiry. Community leaders say it sends out the wrong message.

:: May 28

Head teacher Tim Boyes discloses he warned the Department for Education in 2010 about a plot by Islamic hardliners to infiltrate Birmingham schools.

:: June 2

A leaked Ofsted inspection on the Golden Hillock school finds it "failed to protect children from extremism".

::June 3

The former chairman of governors at Golden Hillock, John Ray, says he raised Islamist infiltration fears with John Major's government in 1994.

:: June 4

Comments by Education Secretary Michael Gove are leaked to The Times in which he is critical of the Home Office approach to tackling extremism. In response the Home Office releases a letter from Theresa May to Mr Gove asking why his department did not tackle fears of an Islamist takeover plot when they were raised in 2010.

:: June 5

A leak of the Ofsted report into Golden Hillock school, run by the Park View Educational Trust, shows it is to be placed in special measures.

:: June 6

After three statements insisting they work well together, Mr Gove says he is "not at war with Theresa May".

:: June 7

Mr Gove is made to apologise for his comments and Mrs May's aide Fiona Cunningham is forced to resign for her response to The Times story. She told journalists: "Why is the DfE wanting to blame other people for information they had in 2010? Lord knows what more they have overlooked on the subject of the protection of kids in state schools? It scares me."

:: June 8

Downing Street releases some details of Ofsted reports on the 21 Birmingham schools that have been inspected as part of the Trojan Horse response. Schools are accused by Ofsted of covering up evidence of infiltration and some are placed in special measures.

David Cameron orders Michael Gove to launch spot checks on schools.

:: June 17

An assistant principal at Park View claimed "plain old Islamophobia" was behind the claims. Lee Donaghy told a panel of MPs that people were failing to differentiate between "Muslims", "terrorists" and "extremists" and twisting events at his school.

:: July 9

Chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw told MPs on the education select committee that there was no evidence of actual extremism.

However his inspectors had found schools implicated in the so-called "Trojan Horse" plot used deliberate intimidation against those who did not conform to their ideology, leaving pupils at risk.

:: July 15

The chairman and board of trustees of the Park View Education Trust resign. Michael Gove becomes a victim of the Cabinet reshuffle, losing his job as Education Secretary to Nicky Morgan. Mr Gove becomes Commons chief whip in a period of legislative calm ahead of the next General Election.


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