Name: Oliver Letwin MP
Role: Chairman of the Policy Review and of the Conservative Research Department

What are you currently working on?

A succession of green papers and other policy documents. We recently issued green papers on the low carbon economy, decentralisation of power in England and radical new approaches to affordable housing. I am now working on papers about policies to promote ownership, the jobs of the future and innovation.

Who is your political hero?

Keith Joseph, so far as recent British political history is concerned, and Abraham Lincoln if we are talking about world history.

When do you think the next General Election will be?

I have no idea. The only thing we know is that there has to be one within about the next 400 days.

Why should people get involved with organisations like Conservative Future?

Because this country desperately needs change – and the only way we are going to get that change is if people of every age join together in one, huge effort to change the Government.

Pick one thing about the last 12 years of the Labour government that you would change?

There are two, equally important things. We need radical social policies to mend Britain’s broken society and a radical shift in economic policy so that we move from an economy build on debt to an economy built on savings and investment.

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