Oliver Letwin: the unseen architect of coalition policy

There have been moments in Oliver Letwin’s political career when it did not look as if he would ever emerge as the intellectual powerhouse of a national government.

There was his time at the Downing Street policy unit in the 1980s, when he helped devise the disastrous poll tax. There was the time, more recently, when he shed official documents in a bin in St James’s Park. In 2001 he had to go into hiding ahead of the general election after admitting he wanted to cut �20bn of taxes, far more than his party’s official position.

In fact Letwin has so many verbal slips to his name that George Eaton at the New Statesman has a handy guide to his top 10 gaffes.

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Source: http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/08/oliver-letwin-the-unseen-architect-of-coalition-policy/

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