Gove, sacked by Theresa May after she became prime minister past year, was unexpectedly recalled as part of the wounded PM's emergency post-election reshuffle.
Co-leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas said his appointment as environment minister 'beggars belief.
The Daily Express reports that Cabinet ministers are rallying around a "beleaguered" prime minister in a desperate attempt to halt bitter Tory in-fighting over her leadership.
The Prime Minister has already confirmed five of her most senior ministers in their positions - including Chancellor Philip Hammond and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Mr Green is a long-standing ally of the prime minister and takes on the position of first secretary of state - to be effectively Mrs May's number two as the title is generally associated with the role of deputy prime minister.
Michael Gove has been announced as the new environment secretary under Theresa May's cabinet reshuffle following the general election shake-up.
And, in a speech at the launch of the Conservative Environment Network in 2014, Mr Gove described himself as a "shy green", reportedly stating: "One of the things that I've learnt throughout my life is that I'm an environmentalist but a lot of time I didn't realise it".
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A Seoul-based expert said the system is created to strike North Korean missile launchers and prevent them being used against South Korea.
Guy Verhofstadt said the European Union was "impatiently" waiting for the United Kingdom to set out its position ahead of talks expected to start next week.
Liz Truss, who was Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, is the new Treasury Chief Secretary "attending Cabinet".
Johnson, who's bid for leadership of the Conservative party was famously deserted by Gove in favour of his own bid previous year looked to attempt to bury the hatchet with a tweet featuring a pun on Gove's name.
However, in another appointment relevant to the air quality policy portfolio, Chris Grayling will stay on as Transport Secretary, a job he has held since 2016. In order to remain in power after losing her majority in the House of Commons, May has spent days negotiating a deal Northern Ireland's far-right Democratic Unionist Party, of which several prominent members reject the scientific consensus on climate change and have praised President Donald Trump's exit from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Jeremy Hunt also continues as Health Secretary, despite having become a hate figure for many in the NHS.
Watson also asks May to indicate whether the News International honcho had ever suggested that Michael Gove should be given a ministerial role, and whether Murdoch had ever threatened May if she failed to take his advice, "in terms of his newspapers' coverage" of her and her newly formed government.
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