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The health and social care bill, always contentious, has lost the support of the Financial Times, ConservativeHome, and three cabinet ministers this week al
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Soon, in a wider resuffle, Andrew Lansley will have to move on. He will have to move on because he hasn't been able to communicate these reforms in a streetwise way and he has been unnecessarily confrontational with NHS staff. It would be very wrong, how
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FILE - This is a May 13, 2010 file photo of Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin as he arrives at 10 Downing Street, London. Letwin acknowledged Friday Oct. 14, 2011, that he has dumped official documents in garbage cans at a London park. (AP... View Photo »
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WEST Dorset MP Oliver Letwin considers the benefits of low-tech legwork. THERE is a considerable tendency to imagine that progress consists in moving from low tech to high tech – and, often enough, this is perfectly true. But not always. Some years ago,
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David Cameron and Nick Clegg must also take some blame for the unpopularity of the NHS bill, not just Andrew Lansley. Photograph: Jens L Estrade/AFP/Getty Images The NHS was long the Conservative party's achilles heel. David Cameron 's greatest political
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The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, is far too easy a scapegoat for the costly chaos of the NHS reforms. "Bloody Lansley... He's got the politics of the NHS reforms wrong... He's a useless communicator." These are among the more polite comments within
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British Minister of State Oliver Letwin, is pictured during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, north-west England, on October 5, 2011. View Photo »
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SHERLOCK Holmes, Miss Marple, Poirot, and DCI Barnaby could join forces and still fail to unmask the “Downing Street source” who supposedly declared: “Andrew Lansley should be taken out and shot.” Not because there isn’t anybody in the No 10 terrace who’
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Don’t believe the spin – the health reforms are Cameron’s just as much as Lansley’s
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The truth, of course, is vastly different to the lines briefed out by Downing Street – the bill is as much the prime minister’s as it is his embattled health secretary’s. As the excerpts below show, he says he helped design it, he has repeatedly backed i
About Oliver Letwin
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Oliver Letwin (born 19 May 1956, Hampstead) is the British Member of Parliament for West Dorset, Chairman of the Policy Review, and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department. Full Article
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 17: Oliver Letwin, Minister of State, Cabinet Office drops some of his papers near to Downing Street on May 17, 2011 in London, England. Cabinet Members attended the weekly Cabinet meeting today in Downing Street.
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FILE - This is a May 13, 2010 file photo of Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin as he arrives at 10 Downing Street, London. Letwin acknowledged Friday Oct. 14, 2011, that he has dumped official documents in garbage cans at a London park. (AP PhotoAnthony Devlin/PA, File) UNITED...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 29: Oliver Letwin, the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, arrives in Downing Street to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting on March 29, 2011 in London, England. Delegates and foreign ministers from several countries are meeting in central London for a...
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