Member of Parliament for West Dorset

Elected: 1997

Bio:
Oliver has been involved in policy formation and policy thinking for the last 25 years, since he worked for Mrs Thatcher in Downing Street in the 1980s. In a varied career, he has been a philosophy don at Cambridge, a civil servant and a bank director. He has written many books, pamphlets and articles, including Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, Privatising the World and The Purpose of Politics. Oliver has had a long political career since first contesting for Hackney North in 1987, since then he has been Shadow Home Secretary 2001-3, Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 2003-05. He is currently a Minister of State for Policy.



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