Michael Gove faces questions over department's use of private email

[oldironside]

Education secretary Michael Gove is facing potentially damaging claims that he and his closest advisers have conducted government business using private emails.

The emails allegedly include a discussion of replacing personnel in the department but civil servants were unable to find those emails when asked to retrieve them under the Freedom of Information Act, the Financial Times reported.

The information commissioner has written to the permanent secretary at the Department for Education to raise concerns about the department's handling of FOI requests. A spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office said it was still making inquiries and had not launched an investigation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/20/michael-gove-department-private-email

This is as bad as Blair's sofa style of government and should be a major cause for concern. What are they trying to hide?

[LeftishBrit]

1. What are they trying to hide?

A lot of cronyism, I suspect. Also, a lot of plain incompetence.

And both Gove and Gibb make me sick.

[oldironside]

2. Whenever I see Gove I can't help but think of...