During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests.… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly throughout the… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill. — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image