Quotes About Nigel Lawson

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting.

As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.

The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part.

A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.

However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.