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Foreign territory

from Cathy (cathyvpreece@aol.com)

Telegraph : Money: City diary

By Robert Watts (Filed: 09/01/2005)

Foreign territory

Oliver Letwin, the jolly Shadow Chancellor, is penning a speech for Tuesday on international aid. This is something of a first for the chummy old Etonian, who is stumbling onto territory normally dominated by Gordon Brown. "It has been noticed that Letwin is giving this speech when the Chancellor is out of the country," grumbles our man at the Treasury.

So, at which prestigious venue will this important lecture be delivered? Mansion House? The Institute of Directors? Err, no. Letwin will hold forth in the rather low-profile offices of the Centre for Social Justice, a think-tank specialising in poverty issues, in Kennington Road, South East London. We were intrigued as to why the Shadow Chancellor is dragging the press to such a modest venue until we discover that a certain O Letwin lives on the very same road.

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