Oliver Letwin

Oliver Letwin

Sir Oliver Letwin (born May 19, 1956 in Hampstead , London Borough of Camden ) is a British author , politician and former member of the Conservative Party . From May 2010 to July 2016 he was Minister of State to Prime Minister David Cameron ( Minister of State at the Cabinet Office ) and his political advisor and, from July 2014, also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster .

biography

The son of a professor at the London School of Economics studied at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge after attending Hall School in Hampstead and Eton College . He then completed postgraduate studies at the London Business School and graduated with a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.). After completing his studies, he became a visiting fellow at Princeton University in 1980 , before he was a research fellow at Darwin College in Cambridge on his return . After serving as a member of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's political advisory team from 1983 to 1986, he was a director at Handelsbank NM Rothschild & Sons from 1991 to 1997 and has also written several books such as Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self , Privating the World and The Purpose of Politics .

After being in the general election in 1987 and 1992 in the constituencies Hackney North and Hampstead and Highgate had a candidate, he was in the general election in 1997 as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time members of the lower house ( House of Commons ) elected and believes in this since the constituency West Dorset .

In September 2000 he became a member of the conservative shadow cabinet for the first time and was initially "shadow chief secretary of the treasury" before he was "shadow minister of the interior" between September 2001 and November 2003. After a subsequent activity as "shadow chancellor of the Exchequer" he was from May to December 2005 "shadow minister for the environment, food and rural areas". Subsequently, between December 2005 and May 2010, he took over the newly created office of chairman of the Policy Review , the influential think tank in the first shadow cabinet of the new chairman of the Conservatives, David Cameron .

After the Conservative Party's victory in the 2010 general election , Prime Minister David Cameron appointed him Minister of State at the Cabinet Office on May 12, 2010 and took part in Cabinet meetings as his political advisor . Letwin is considered to be the inventor of the concept of a big society , which was also the central theme of his party's election campaign. On July 15, 2014, he was also appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the first government of Prime Minister Cameron . After David Cameron's resignation and Theresa May's inauguration as Prime Minister on July 13, 2016, he left the cabinet. Letwin was knighted as part of the resignation honors of former Prime Minister David Cameron . In August 2019, the MP announced that he would not run again in the upcoming parliamentary elections. On September 4, 2019, he was expelled from the Conservative Party faction due to his parliamentary refusal to support Brexit .

On October 19, 2019, Letwin prevented the vote on British Prime Minister Johnson's renegotiated Brexit deal by introducing a Letwin amendment with the aim of preventing the vote on the agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union only after the To carry out the ratification law.

Letwin is married and has two children.

Works (selection)

• 1981: "Interpreting the Philebus," Phronesis 26: 187-206
• 1987: Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, Routledge, ISBN 0-7099-4110-2
• 1988: Britain's Biggest Enterprise - ideas for radical reform of the NHS, Center for Policy Studies, ISBN 1-870265-19-X
• 1988: Privatising the World: A Study of International Privatization in Theory and Practice, Thomson Learning, ISBN 0-304-31527-3
• 1989: Drift to union: Wiser ways to a wider community, Center for Policy Studies, ISBN 1-870265-74-2
• 2003: The Neighborly Society: Collected Speeches, Center for Policy Studies, ISBN 1-903219-60-4
• 2017: Hearts and Minds: The Battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the Present, Biteback Publishing, ISBN 1-785903-11-X

Web links

Commons : Oliver Letwin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Oliver Letwin
• Conservative Party homepage
• Homepage as a Member of Parliament ( They Work For You )
• THE GUARDIAN: Oliver Letwin: Electoral history and profile ( Memento from September 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PM Theresa May makes more ministerial changes. BBC News, July 16, 2016, accessed July 16, 2016 . 
2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 61678, HMSO, London, August 16, 2016, p. RH2 ( PDF , accessed September 7, 2016, English).
3. ↑ Tory grandee Sir Oliver Letwin to stand down at next election. August 21, 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Who are the Conservative rebels that lost the party whip? metro.co.uk, September 4, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Letwin's application as a new hurdle for Johnson. ORF.at, October 19, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019 . 
6. ↑ House of Commons postpones vote on Johnson's Brexit deal. Handelsblatt, October 19, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019 . 
7. ^ Official website of Oliver Letwin