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Britain's destiny lies in Europe.
- Nigel Lawson
#Britain
#Destiny
#Europe
#Lies
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.
- Nigel Lawson
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There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.
- Nigel Lawson
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#Respect
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
- Nigel Lawson
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#Opposition
#Sabbatical
#System
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 truth is, nobody knows.
- Nigel Lawson
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#Green
#Moment
#Nobody
#Truth
Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.
- Nigel Lawson
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#Look
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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.
- Nigel Lawson
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#Me
#Time
#Wife
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The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.
- Nigel Lawson
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#Country
#Immigrants
#Kind
#Right
Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you.
- Nigel Lawson
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#World
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.
- Nigel Lawson
#Government
#Man
#Money
#Young Man
#Young
It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice.
- Nigel Lawson
#Anything
#Financial
#House
#Nature
#Once
She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.
- Nigel Lawson
#Argument
#Building
#Energy
#Movement
Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.
- Nigel Lawson
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#Great
#Lie
#Today
#World
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
- Nigel Lawson
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#Choose
#Govern
#Unable
The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.
- Nigel Lawson
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#English
#NHS
#Religion
#Thing
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