Sir Horace Walter Cutler OBE JP (28 July 1912 – 2 March 1997) was a British Conservative politician who served as leader of the Greater London Council from 1977 to 1981.

[2] Cutler believed that local authorities had no role in housing, and instituted a scheme to allow tenants to buy their own homes at a discounted price, which later became one of the tenets of Thatcherism.

When the Conservatives lost control of the GLC in 1973 and Sir Desmond Plummer resigned as their Leader in 1974, Cutler was chosen as his successor.

[2] Investment on the London Underground was not substantial and decisions taken during his period of office have been criticised subsequently for leading to poor infrastructure in the long term.

Cutler was also noted for meddling in detailed Underground management, which London Transport Chairman Peter Masefield had to persuade him to stop.

[4] In the 1981 GLC elections, Cutler made a great deal of the fact that if Labour won, its local leader, Andrew McIntosh, was likely to be replaced by the more left-wing Ken Livingstone.

[2] In retirement, Cutler lived in Ibiza for many years, but returned to England at the end of his life, dying at a care home in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, on 2 March 1997, aged 84.