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2 giorni fa · The NHS became ‘the closest thing the English people have to a religion’ in Nigel Lawson’s words, because it proved our goodness. They weren’t necessarily wrong.
2 giorni fa · In 1987–88, Chancellor Nigel Lawson had been following a policy of "shadowing the Deutschmark", i.e. cutting interest rates and selling pounds to try to prevent the pound rising above DM 3.00 (as a substitute for joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism which Thatcher had vetoed in 1985); in an interview for the Financial Times, in ...
3 giorni fa · It was the sainted Nigel Lawson – the Brexiteer and climate change denier now happily ensconced in La Belle France – who suggested, “to govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern”.
4 giorni fa · Just ponder on the towering figures of Nigel Lawson, Kenneth Clarke, Douglas Hurd, Peter Brooke, Norman Tebbit or Portillo, Lamont, Howard and Currie.
3 giorni fa · Other politicians who have won very public battles with the bulge include Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor Nigel Lawson, who lost five stone and even revealed his dieting secrets in a book, and Labour’s former deputy leader Tom Watson, who shed six stone in nine months by ditching beer and curries.
2 giorni fa · After just three months as Foreign Secretary Major was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 26 October 1989 following the sudden resignation of Nigel Lawson, who had fallen out with Thatcher over what he saw as her excessive reliance on the advice of her Economic Adviser Alan Walters.
5 giorni fa · Nigel Lawson and the Treasury got egg on their face, because the monetarist agenda, laid out in the Medium Financial Term Strategy in 1980, had not worked out as planned. High real interest rates ...
