article_snippet.sent: Yet writer Laurence Marks also played a crucial role in getting David Cameron into Downing Street, it can be revealed.
article_snippet.sent: In the 1990s, writer Laurence Marks lived in the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney, where David Cameron would later become MP.
article_snippet.sent: writer Laurence Marks and writer Laurence Marks writing partner Maurice Gran had become local celebrities owing to the success of The New Statesman, which ran from 1987 to 1994.
article_snippet.sent: Although writer Laurence Marks was a committed Labour supporter and Maurice Gran was a Liberal Democrat, the then chairman of the local Conservative Association, Joyce Sanderson,
article_snippet.sent: sought Marks was a committed Labour supporter and Gran was a Liberal Democrat, the then chairman of the local Conservative Association,
article_snippet.sent: So next time the seat came up for grabs, the opinions of Mr Marks and Maurice Gran were clearly more respected.
article_snippet.sent: When the opinions of Mr Marks and Mr Gran were introduced to all five on the shortlist to fight Witney at the 1997 General Election, the opinions of Mr Marks and Mr Gran plumped for an ambitious young man called David Cameron, who won the seat with a majority of nearly 8,000.
article_snippet.sent: When the opinions of Mr Marks and Mr Gran selected
article_snippet.sent: – Shaun Woodward, I told the opinions of Mr Marks and Mr Gran, “
article_snippet.sent: You’re making a dreadful mistake,” said Mr Marks, 66, last night.
article_snippet.sent: Out of the five the opinions of Mr Marks and Mr Gran introduced to us the next time around, David Cameron was by far the best. '