Oliver Letwin

**Oliver Letwin**, a MP and a FRSA (born 19 May 1956) is an English politician. He is currently the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office as well as the Chairman of Policy Review, and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department. He is the Member of Parliament for the West Dorset constituency in the United Kingdom. He was first elected in the 1997 general election.

He is a member of the Conservative Party.

He married Isabel Grace Davidson on 14 September 1984 in Cambridge. They have a twin son and daughter born in July 1993.

## Selected works

- Oliver Letwin (1987) _Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self_, Routledge,
- Oliver Letwin and John Redwood. (1988) _Britain's Biggest Enterprise – ideas for radical reform of the NHS_, Centre for Policy Studies,
- Oliver Letwin (1988) _Privatizing the World: A Study of International Privatization in Theory and Practice_, Thomson Learning,
- Oliver Letwin (1989) _Drift to union: Wiser ways to a wider community_, Centre for Policy Studies,
- Oliver Letwin (2003) _The Neighbourly Society: Collected Speeches_, Centre for Policy Studies,

## Related pages

- Ukrainian diaspora in the United Kingdom

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: <small>Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council#Rights and privileges of members, The Right Honourable</small>
- **name**: Oliver Letwin
- **honorific-suffix**: <small>FRSA Member of Parliament, MP</small>
- **image**: Oliver_Letwin_Official.jpg
- **office**: Cabinet Office, Minister of State for Policy
- **primeminister**: David Cameron
- **term start**: 12 May 2010
- **term end**: 14 July 2016
- **predecessor**: Office Created
- **successor**: Office Abolished
- **office2**: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom), Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- **leader2**: Michael Howard
- **term start2**: 5 May 2005
- **term end2**: 6 December 2005
- **predecessor2**: Theresa May
- **successor2**: Peter Ainsworth
- **office3**: Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
- **leader3**: Michael Howard
- **term start3**: 6 November 2003
- **term end3**: 10 May 2005
- **predecessor3**: Michael Howard
- **successor3**: George Osborne
- **office4**: Shadow Home Secretary
- **leader4**: Iain Duncan Smith
- **term start4**: 18 September 2001
- **term end4**: 6 November 2003
- **predecessor4**: Ann Widdecombe
- **successor4**: David Davis (British politician), David Davis
- **office5**: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom), Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- **leader5**: William Hague
- **term start5**: 26 September 2000
- **term end5**: 18 September 2001
- **predecessor5**: David Heathcoat-Amory
- **successor5**: John Bercow
- **office6**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
 for West Dorset (UK Parliament constituency), West Dorset
- **term start6**: 1 May 1997
- **term end6**: 6 November 2019
- **predecessor6**: James Spicer
- **successor6**: Chris Loder
- **majority6**: 3,923 (6.8%)
- **birth place**: Hampstead, London, England
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **spouse**: Isabel Davidson
- **children**: 2
- **alma mater**: Eton College
Trinity College, Cambridge
London Business School