Oliver Letwin - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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May 19, 1956 London 67 years old

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About Oliver Letwin

  • Sir Oliver Letwin, (born 19 May 1956) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dorset from 1997 to 2019.
  • Letwin was elected as a member of the Conservative Party, but sat as an independent after having the whip removed in September 2019.
  • He served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer under Michael Howard and Shadow Home Secretary under Iain Duncan Smith.
  • He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2014 to 2016. Following the 2015 general election Letwin was given overall responsibility for the Cabinet Office and became a full member of the Cabinet in the Conservative government.
  • Previously he had been the Minister of State for Government Policy from 2010.During the Second May ministry in 2019, Letwin rebelled against leading Eurosceptics within the Conservative Party by tabling a cross-party motion to hold "indicative votes", allowing MPs to vote on several Brexit options in order to establish whether any could command a majority in the House of Commons; it transpired that none of them could.
  • In August 2019 he announced that he would stand down at the next election.
  • On 3 September 2019, he lost the Conservative party whip and sat as an independent MP after that.

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