Farewell Michael Gove, here were your best bits

Michael Gove has been replaced as education secretary by Nicky Morgan, as David Cameron carries out a drastic cabinet reshuffle. Here are the highlights from his tumultuous four years at the Department for Education.

• He rebranded the Department for Children, Schools and Families (last led by the hated Ed Balls).

• He introduced the flagship Conservative manifesto policy of free schools and allowed schools to apply to become academies.

• He once... 'performed' a segment of Wham Rap! [sic] to a group of schoolchildren.

• He... 'alienated' teachers.

• He called his (many) critics "The Blob".

• He briefed against Theresa May's handling of the so-called Trojan Horse plot by hardline Muslims to take over schools in Birmingham, and was forced to apologise by the prime minister.

• He once fell over outside Downing Street:

• His decision to axe Building Schools for the Future in six local authority areas was deemed unlawful due to a lack of consultation by a judicial review.

• He inspired at least one young devotee at the Conservative Party conference:

• He reintroduced Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and John Keats to the English literature syllabuses.

• He (briefly) angered the Twitterati by appearing to remove To Kill A Mockingbird from the curriculum.

• He sought advice from right-wing historian Niall Ferguson on how to reshape the history curriculum.

• Also, he once fell over outside Downing Street:

• He was labelled by one critic as possessing "blinkered, almost messianic, self-belief".

• He seemed permanently surprised to see journalists outside No 10:

• He praised Britain's role in World War I, criticising Blackadder for presenting the conflict as a "series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite".

• He was immortalised in a pin cushion:

• He starred in one of the greatest cartoons ever:

• He re-ordered school league tables to give prominence to core subjects.

• He tried to scrap GCSE exams and bring back O-levels (Gove-levels) but faced a barrage of criticism from Liberal Democrat coalition partners, teachers, trade unions, Labour MPs - pretty much everyone in fact.

• And finally, he once fell over outside Downing Street:

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