Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the …– Nigel Lawson
Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the greenest government ever, but the definition of green is immature… I don’t deny for a moment that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are so many other factors that affect climate. It is more complicated than the computer models that we are using. What the […]
Those who claim that to leave the E…– Nigel Lawson
Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.
The ‘in’ campaign will attempt to scare people …– Nigel Lawson
The ‘in’ campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.
I strongly suspect that there would be a positive …– Nigel Lawson
I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.
If our system of cabinet government is to work …– Nigel Lawson
If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.
I remember when we ignored Europe and we were …– Nigel Lawson
I remember when we ignored Europe and we were totally committed to the Commonwealth and the former Empire, and thought imperial preference was the only thing which enabled us to survive, that was a mistake, and it’s a similar mistake to feel Britain can’t be a hugely successfully country – economically and in any other […]
I am in favour of a fully transferable …– Nigel Lawson
I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.
One of the things that concerned me was the way …– Nigel Lawson
One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children.
The successful conduct of economic policy is …– Nigel Lawson
The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is – and is seen to be – full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Raising the personal allowance is massively …– Nigel Lawson
Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.