Nigel Lawson, tax-cutting chancellor under Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 91
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Nigel Lawson, tax-cutting chancellor under Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 91

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Nigel Lawson, the tax-slashing chancellor under Margaret Thatcher and one of the titans of British politics in the 1980s, has died at the age of 91. Lord Lawson headed up the Treasury under Mrs Thatcher from 1983 to 1989, playing a leading role in her transformative government which rolled back the state. Rishi Sunak said: “One of the first things I did as chancellor was hang a picture of Nigel Lawson above my desk. My thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.” Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, said: "Nigel Lawson was a fearless and original flame of free market Conservatism.

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Mrs Thatcher had long been opposed to membership of the ERM, seeing it as putting Britain on the runway to European Economic and Monetary Union, as indeed was the ambition of the European Commission President Jacques Delors, though Lawson himself, as a Eurosceptic, had no intention of seeing the pound subsumed into a single currency. The same month an article …

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