Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rishi Sunak said Nigel Lawson taught him that “preparation, hard …
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 …
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 …
