Oliver Letwin talks on Toleration at the University of York
Posted on 24 November 2006
Oliver Letwin, who is the Conservative Party's Head of Policy, will deliver the 24th Morrell Address, titled Why tolerance?, on 29 November 2006. The lecture is free and open to the public.
These public lectures are organised by the Morrell Studies in Toleration Programme, which was established in the University's Department of Politics in 1980, using funding from the C and J B Morrell Trust. Since 1981, academics, politicians, lawyers and broadcasters, ranging from Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield to Sir Edward Heath and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC to Mark Tully, have been invited to York to speak on issues surrounding Toleration.
We are honoured that [Oliver Letwin] has agreed to deliver the 2006 Morrell Lecture
Professor Matt Matravers
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and London Business School, Oliver Letwin was elected MP for West Dorset in 1997. Previously he was a member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1983 to1986, after being Special Adviser to Secretary of State for Education and Science from 1982 to1983 and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1981 to 1983.
He has held a number of Shadow cabinet posts including Shadow Chancellor and Shadow Home Secretary.
Professor Matt Matravers, Head of the Politics Department and a Morrell Trustee, said "We are very pleased to have Oliver Letwin as this year's Morrell Lecturer. He has not only been Shadow Chancellor and Shadow Home Secretary, but he has established himself as one of the most thoughtful of modern politicians. We are honoured that he has agreed to deliver the 2006 Morrell Lecture."
Notes to editors:
- Since 1980 the Politics Department at the University of York has been home to the Morrell Toleration Project, which is funded by the C and J B Morrell Trust. The Trust supports a wide range of activities in political philosophy, including an annual Address on Toleration, regular conferences on the philosophical foundations of toleration, and funding for students who wish to register for the MA in Political Philosophy (The Idea of Toleration).
- The Department of Politics at York provides a stimulating and friendly environment for students. It is consistently ranked amongst the top six centres for teaching and research in Politics and International Studies and was awarded a '5A/5*' in the latest Research Assessment Exercise and maximum '24/24' by the Quality Assurance Agency for teaching quality.
- The Morrell Address is at 6.30pm on Wednesday 29 November P/X001 in the Physics Building at the University of York. Entry is free and all are welcome.