Oliver Letwin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Oliver Letwin
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 19, 1956(1956-05-19)
Age	68
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Taurus

Oliver Letwin Biography

Oliver Letwin is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 19, 1956 in England, United Kingdom. Letwin Born on May 19, 1956, in London was born to William Letwin (14 December 1922 20 February 2013 – 14 December 1922) an emeritus professor in the London School of Economics, and the academic conservative Shirley Robin Letwin. They had been “Jewish-American intellectuals from Chicago whose parents had fled persecution in Kiev.”

Letwin got married to a lawyer from the government Isabel Davidson in 1984; the couple has two children.

In 1985, Letwin and Hartley Booth wrote a five-page document as members of then-Prime Minister Thatcher’s policy unit in response to the widespread 1985 unrest in Britain’s inner cities – with riots in Broadwater Farm estates in Tottenham, North London, Handsworth, Brixton, Peckham and Toxteth. In the paper, Letwin and Booth urged “Thatcher to ignore reports that rioting in mainly black urban areas was the result of social deprivation and racism.” Letwin was at the time considered to be a “young star” of the Conservative Party. The memo scorned suggestions by senior cabinet ministers to set up a £10 million communities programme to tackle inner-city problems by helping black entrepreneurs start businesses as suggested by then-Employment Secretary David Young, refurbishing public housing council blocks as suggested by then- Environment Secretary Kenneth Baker and “establishing training programmes for low-income youth.”

Another 1985 internal memo released in December 2015 showed Letwin’s response to the Broadwater Farm riot, which blamed the violence on the “bad moral attitudes” of the predominantly Afro-Caribbean rioters, claiming that “lower- class, unemployed white people lived for years without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale”. It also criticised some of the schemes proposed to address inner-city problems, suggesting David Young’s proposed scheme to support black entrepreneurs would founder because the money would be spent on the “disco and drug trade”. Letwin later apologised, saying that parts of the memo had been “both badly worded and wrong.”

He was a part of Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit from 1983 to 1986.

Oliver Letwin Net Worth

Oliver Letwin is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oliver Letwin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sir Oliver Letwin, PC FRSA (born 19 May 1956) is a British politician who was the MP (MP) of West Dorset from 1997 to the year 2019. Letwin is a registered member in the Conservative Party, but sat as an independent following the removal of the whip taken away in September of 2019. He was Shadow Chief Chancellor of the Exchequer under Michael Howard and Shadow Home Secretary under Iain Duncan Smith. He was Chancellor of Lancaster from 2014 to 2016. Duchy of Lancaster from 2014 until 2016.

He attended The Hall School, Hampstead and then in Eton College and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. Between 1980 and the year 1981 Letwin served as a guest fellow (a Procter Fellow) of Princeton University, then a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, between 1981 and 1982. The thesis he wrote, Emotion and Emotions, was awarded the distinction of a PhD granted from Cambridge University’s Cambridge Philosophy Faculty in 1982.

The 1985 Broadwater Farm memo argued the riots were caused by bad behaviour not social conditions. The policy unit proposed a programme for creating “better attitudes,” including measures to encourage the establishment of ‘old- fashioned independent schools’ which Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong warned in 1985 constituted social engineering.

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Who is Oliver Letwin Dating?

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He had previously been an official Opposition spokesman on Constitutional Affairs, Scotland and Wales from 1998, and was promoted to Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1999.

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Oliver Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Oliver Letwin celebrates birthday on May 19 of every year.

In September 2001, he was appointed Shadow Home Secretary by the new Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith. In this role, he attracted plaudits for his advocacy of a “neighbourly society”, which manifested itself in calls for street by street neighbourhood policing, modelled on the philosophy of the police in New York. He was also largely credited with forcing the then Home Secretary to withdraw his proposal in 2001 to introduce an offence of incitement to religious hatred. He successfully argued that such an offence would be impossible to define, so there would be little chance of prosecution. He also argued that Muslims would feel persecuted by such a law. In late 2003, Michael Howard appointed Letwin as his successor as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. As Shadow Chancellor he focused on reducing waste in the public sector.