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Nigel Lawson

May 2024

  • William Keegan

    William Keegan's in my view
    The wisest Brexiters – such as Nigel Lawson – knew how good life is in Europe

    William Keegan
    A weekend near the former chancellor’s French residence induced a mood of wellbeing quite unlike Britain’s beleaguered mood

April 2024

  • Rishi Sunak with a portrait of Nigel Lawson on a wall behind him

    Secret Thatcher-era memo undermines Sunak’s plan to scrap national insurance

    Former chancellor Nigel Lawson, who PM cites as inspiration, warned merging NICs with income tax would ‘create many losers’

April 2023

  • Nigel Lawson at the 2015 Institute of Directors’ annual convention in London.

    How Nigel Lawson left his mark on British politics

  • Steve Bell 06/04/23

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Steve Bell on the death of Nigel Lawson – cartoon

  • Martin Kettle

    A committed unbeliever: Nigel Lawson left the Tory party a complex, divisive legacy

    Martin Kettle
  • Nigel Lawson, with his battered red budget box, in his office at the Treasury in March 1987.

    How Nigel Lawson turned postwar economic consensus on its head

  • Nigel Lawson obituary

  • Nigel Lawson: former Conservative chancellor dies aged 91

October 2022

  • William Keegan

    Have Liz Truss’s 44 days in office destroyed 40 years of free market philosophy?

    William Keegan
    Economists soon saw through Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans for billions of unfunded tax cuts to benefit the rich

March 2019

  • Margaret Thatcher (left) with Nigel Lawson

    'Absurd': Thatcher's private papers reveal fury over Lawson's exit

    Beleaguered PM condemns chancellor’s resignation in memo written in 1989

May 2018

  • Nigel Lawson

    Anger as Brexiter Nigel Lawson applies for French residency

    Former Vote Leave chair ridiculed for leading anti-EU campaign while continuing to live in France

April 2018

  • Lord Lawson

    BBC Radio 4 broke accuracy rules in Nigel Lawson climate change interview

    Ofcom says controversial claims, including on the frequency of extreme weather events, went unchallenged

October 2017

  • Nigel Lawson

    BBC apologises over interview with climate denier Lord Lawson

  • Will Hutton

    They’re back, as wrong as ever. Enough of Nigel Lawson and his band of 80s ultras

    Will Hutton

April 2016

  • Nigel Lawson: ‘ The EU has never made economic sense.’

    Saturday interview
    Nigel Lawson on Brexit: ‘I love Europe! That’s why I live in France. But the EU has no purpose’

    From his grand country house in Gascony, the Vote Leave champion tells why no cost is too great to achieve Britain’s exit from the European Union – not the EU’s total collapse, nor David’s Cameron’s job

September 2014

  • Lord Nigel Lawson, ex-Chancellor, during an interview at the London Stock Exchange

    Two secret funders of Nigel Lawson’s climate sceptic organisation revealed

    Neil Record and Nigel Vinson confirm their donations, and are both linked to thinktank that took funds from oil companies

May 2013

  • Former Chancellor and Conservative politician Lord Nigel Lawson

    Nigel Lawson says British economy would be better off outside EU

    Tory peer and former chancellor claims union has become 'bureaucratic monstrosity' from which the UK should break free

July 2012

  • Lord Lawson

    Lord Lawson's advice to Osborne: give up the strategy and focus on your job

    Former chancellor tells his longtime admirer he needs to devote more time to running Britain's economy

May 2007

  • William Keegan's in my view
    Watch out, Nigella: dad's back in town

    Nigel Lawson may be in idyllic semi-retirement in France - but, as he tells William Keegan, he still has the stomach for a battle over climate change that could keep him in the headlines alongside his celebrity offspring.
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