ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Questioned on Friday by ConservativeHome, David Cameron dismissed The Sunday Telegraph's recent suggestion that Oliver Letwin was conducting a new review into public sector waste. I often read stories that have a detached relationship to reality, was the Tory leader's...
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Tory policy chief Oliver Letwin has been charged with looking for potential savings. Our proposals would trim state spending by £32billion.
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
ToryDiary: Boris starts Oliver Letwin's savings list with attack on ID cards, national child register and public sector advertisements in The Guardian Michael Gove promises to tie UK exam standards to best international models The biggest beasts are in the...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
London's Mayor has written a barnstorming article for today's Telegraph, complaining at the inflated cost of wine that will greet him and his diminished pounds on his forthcoming skiing holiday in France:"I will be forced to sip that drink miserably,...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Yesterday's Sunday Telegraph reported that Oliver Letwin has been asked to draw up a list of public expenditure savings that can be used to fund Tory tax cuts. This is excellent news if those savings are to be appreciable and...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
A Tory spending cuts package is being drawn up by Oliver Letwin the former shadow chancellor in a fresh blow to George Osborne's authority.
Sutton Chat: Recent Posts (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Yes, the Tories are having a dinner with Oliver Letwin at the Holiday Inn tonight. Mr Letwin is in charge of the Conservative policy review and their manifesto for the next general election. http://www.suttoncheamconservatives.com/index.php?sectionid=6
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
Glyn Gaskarth served as election aide to Oliver Letwin MP in the 2001 General Election, Special Advisor to David Davis, Shadow Home Secretary, in 2006 and has written for Policy Exchange. Hizb ut Tahrir’s Pakistan branch has effectively declared war...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Oliver Letwin says the PM is wrong in claiming the Tories would scrap Sure Start
Ranting Stan (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Telegraph reports this morning that the Tories are feeling confident about victory at the next election even though it is still a year or two away - if a week is a long time in politics what does that make two years? Oliver Letwin, the Tory policy chief, and Francis Maude, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, will lead a discussion about the work the party is doing to prepare for Government. The...
Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Conservative conference agenda for Wednesday 1st October includes * Preparing for government, with Oliver Letwin and Francis Maude * Our local environment - speakers include Eric Pickles * International Challenges - speakers include William Hague and Pauline Neville Jones and the main event ... * The party leader's speech from David Cameron
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Andrew Sparrow: Some people believe that being progressive involves little more than being nice. Others, particularly on the left, set a much higher hurdle
Keep Tony Blair For PM (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Home Comment at end 30th September, 2008 Tory Policy man Oliver Letwin says: CAMERON IS THE ‘HEIR TO BLAIR’ Yes. So what’s new? I’ve always rather liked Oliver Letwin. He seems a straight kind and honest kind of guy. TOO straight for some. At the Tory conference yesterday he got into deep trouble. He let the cat out of the bag - [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Oliver Letwin has promised that David Cameron would complete Tony Blair's unfinished legacy by pushing through reforms that Gordon Brown had thwarted while Chancellor. And the party's policy director, speaking to a packed fringe meeting organised by The Independent yesterday, risked a backlash from the Tory rank and file by insisting tax cuts were not possible.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
*Is Cherie Blair trying to tell us something? A day after Oliver Letwin praised her husband for his (belated) reforming agenda, she will sup with the enemy at a Tory fringe meeting today. Alongside her will be former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, who will achieve the rare feat of speaking at all three party conferences.
