Cutting taxes was a good thing, said Oliver Letwin - and John Redwood couldn't agree more.
But shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin said this was exactly the type of legal problem he had warned about.
Oliver Letwin for the Tories tells us the government has "utterly failed" in what it set out to do.
The Tories' two most effective front bench performers are the shadow chancellor, Michael Howard, and the shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin.
Conservative Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin criticised the government's record on public services.
Conservative shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin welcomed the lifting of the penalties.
Oliver Letwin, the affable ex-philosopher who has taken over from Ann Widdecombe as the Conservative Party's shadow home secretary, falls into this category.
Representing the Conservatives was Oliver Letwin, the minister for policy, a man who once left parliamentary papers in a bin in St James's Park.
The witnesses are the Culture Secretary Maria Miller, Cabinet Office policy guru Oliver Letwin, and Harriet Harman, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
In a written statement to MPs the minister for government policy, Oliver Letwin, said there will no longer have to be a "default" 12-week period.
Despite a number of other concessions agreed with shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin, the Home Office insisted that it had left the bill largely intact.
The bill was given to Culture Secretary Maria Miller and Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin last week, but is unlikely to progress without government support.
But Cabinet Office Minster Oliver Letwin said the changes were being made in order to create a modern service "that can actually do the job properly".
You mentioned Oliver Letwin, I mean what he is talking about are, are fundamental principles like human freedom, about ... community which Disraeli would recognise, actually.
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At 1pm, the Public Administration Committee rounds off its inquiry into strategic thinking in government with the coalition's designated strategic thinker, Oliver Letwin MP, minister for government policy.
The Chancellor's group on Scotland includes George Osborne and Danny Alexander from the Treasury, Michael Moore and David Mundell from the Scotland office and the Cabinet office minister, Oliver Letwin.
On Wednesday, Commons business begins with Cabinet Office questions - an opportunity, perhaps, for Labour MPs to taunt the Conservative backroom policy mastermind Oliver Letwin over his comments about the undesirability of people from Sheffield taking holidays abroad.
Between them the high ranking Tories Oliver Letwin , Dr Liam Fox , John Redwood , Archie Norman as well as Boris Johnson and the only none Tory - Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble agreed on everything, pretty much.
They include the West Dorset seat of shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin who has a majority of only 1, 414 and Theresa May, shadow secretary of state for the family, who currently holds the seat of Maidenhead with a majority of 3284.
Topping the bill on the committee corridor is the joint appearance, at the Environmental Audit Committee, of the DEFRA Secretary, Caroline Spelman, and the machinery of government supremo, Oliver Letwin, to discuss the extent to which sustainability is built into government decision-making (at 1pm).
The goal is what Oliver Letwin recently described as a 'framework theory of the state' - or to translate, that the state offers a framework in which things like education and healthcare are paid for by the taxpayer but not always delivered by the state itself.
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What is clear is that the plucky efforts by John Varley, chief executive of Barclays, in talks primarily with the Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin, to establish some kind of entente cordiale between bankers and ministers are close to collapse (see my assorted notes on all this from November 14 onwards).
Those pesky Liberal Democrats were Labour's poodle said John Redwood while Oliver Letwin almost fluffed his return while musing out loud that he may have been a Liberal if Jo Grimmond were still alive, but as he wasn't the Liberals were clearly a very bad thing - after all they would raise taxes even higher than Labour.
Iain Martin, of the Wall Street Journal, criticised the party's manifesto, which had the words 'an invitation to join the government of Great Britain' embossed on its cover, saying it "must have sounded like a great idea when Oliver Letwin and Steve Hilton came up with it but I can not imagine it flying in marginal Conservative seats".
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