Michael Gove calls New York Times ‘useful idiots’ for Trojan horse podcast

Former education secretary for England says podcast ‘was replete with errors’ about controversy involving Birmingham schools

Michael Gove has attacked the New York Times as “useful idiots” for its podcast about the Trojan horse controversy involving Birmingham schools, and accused it of portraying the UK “as an insular backwater whose inhabitants are drowning in a tide of nostalgia, racism and bad food”.

Gove’s claims come in the foreword of a new “documentary record” about the Trojan horse affair published by the Policy Exchange thinktank, whose authors question whether the government has adequately followed up concerns over extremism in schools.

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