An important new book by one of the Britain's great liberal thinkers Hearts & Minds is part memoir part political history & part history of ideas In it former Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin explains how the central ideas & policies of the modern Conservative party came into being how they have played out over the period from Mrs Thatcher to Mrs May & what needs to happen next in order to make the country a better place to live Far from being a sugar-coated version of events Letwin tells a story that he hopes will persuade readers that politicians are capable of recognising their mistakes & learning from them
- & will show that social & economic liberalism if correctly conceived are capable of addressing the issues that confront us today The book also describes Letwin's own journey from a remarkable childhood with American academic parents via Margaret Thatcher's policy unit into the very centre of first the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition & then the Cameron government where as Minister for Government Policy & then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster every piece of government policy crossed his desk It
Includes:: Letwin's personal reflections on two devastating electoral events the EU referendum & the general election of June 2017