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    • Saturday, 8 April, 2023
      LexCapital markets
      Private investors: their participation is of primary importance Premium content

      Retail stock pickers have mainly participated in the secondary market, historically

      The logo of the London Stock Exchange Group
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Nigel Lawson’s successors all failed to escape his shadow

      Former chancellor’s pivotal role in Brexit campaign weighed on the Conservative agendas that followed him

      Nigel Lawson in his office at the Treasury
    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Obituary
      Nigel Lawson, chancellor and journalist, 1932-2023

      Radical who oversaw Tory privatisation and reform from No 11 but fell out with Margaret Thatcher

      Nigel Lawson and Margaret Thatcher on the party conference stage
    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Radical tax-cutting UK chancellor Nigel Lawson dies at 91

      Revered by many Tories as a small-state revolutionary, he fell out with Margaret Thatcher on economic policy

      Nigel Lawson in 1985
    • Thursday, 6 September, 2018
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The UK economy needs reform, not revolution

      A bipartisan commission advocates sweeping structural changes

      Helena Morrissey, head of personal investing at Legal & General Investment Management Ltd., poses for photograh following a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Legal & General Investment Management may be the U.K.'s largest manager of index funds, but it doesn’t want to be pigeon-holed as a passive investor. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2017
      Brexit
      ‘Ultras’ dominating ‘crackers’ debate over Brexit, says Ken Clarke
    • Friday, 13 October, 2017
      UK politics
      Theresa May expresses full confidence in Philip Hammond
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2017
      News in-depthBrexit
      Hammond under pressure as Lawson calls for chancellor to be sacked

      Eurosceptic Conservatives unleash fury over Brexit contingency planning

      The chancellor has been accused of undermining Britain's negotiation position
    • Monday, 18 September, 2017
      Brexit
      Theresa May’s silence on the benefits of Brexit frustrates

      It is bizarre that it has been left to Boris Johnson to explain what these are

      Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions, in London, September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2017
      UK politics
      Thatcher’s officials sought to cover up toxic economic rivalry

      Sir Alan Walters came under pressure to remove material about Nigel Lawson from book

      Composite of Nigel lawson and Alan Walters fro public records story
    • Monday, 9 January, 2017
      ReviewBooks
      Review – ‘When Britain Went Bust’

      The 1976 deal to borrow from the IMF was the climax of decades of weakness

      Political Personalities, pic: 13th December 1977, Pictured at a London press conference are l-r, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Dennis Healey, Prime Minister Jim Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and French Premier Raymond Barre (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 30 December, 2016
      Fund management
      Sporting ‘crown jewels’ almost switched to pay TV

      National Archives 1989-1990: Thatcher backed further broadcasting reforms

      Boris Becker of Germany during the Men's Singles semi final of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship in 1989
    • Friday, 30 December, 2016
      UK politics
      Thatcher aide regrets effect of deregulation on consumer credit

      National Archives 1989-1990: How government wrestled with end of Lawson boom

      Margaret Thatcher's economic adviser said the government had underestimated 'the effect of financial deregulation on ordinary people’s ability and willingness to borrow'
    • Friday, 14 October, 2016
      David Willetts
      When the pound goes south, it affects national power, too

      The value of the currency is always a clue to the health of the economy

      Falkands War Troops Return Home To United Kingdom...The Royal Navys aircraft carrier, H.M.S. Invincible returns to Portsmouth harbour, carrying Prince Andrew and other service personnel following the Falklands war, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, U.K, on Friday, September 17, 1982. Returning from the South Atlantic to a mass celebrations on the quayside, the ship was greeted by Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Philip and Princess Anne. (Photo by Bryn Colton/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 2 September, 2016
      Brexit
      Brexit gives us a chance to finish the Thatcher revolution

      The economic gains from leaving the EU will be substantial, writes Nigel Lawson

      Illustration for FT Weekend comment - issue dated 03.09.16
    • Monday, 18 July, 2016
      Janan Ganesh
      Philip Hammond, the Treasury’s shape-shifting survivor

      There may be more to the chancellor than the ‘accountant’ disparaged by mandarins

      Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond arrives at Downing Street in London on July 12, 2016, as he prepares to attend Prime Minister David Cameron's last Cabinet meeting. David Cameron chairs his final cabinet meeting on Tuesday after six years as Britain's prime minister, with incoming premier Theresa May preparing to form a new government to deliver Brexit. / AFP PHOTO / CHRIS J RATCLIFFECHRIS J RATCLIFFE/AFP/Getty Images
    • Thursday, 30 June, 2016
      EU energy
      UK move to set CO2 target faces challenge

      Lord Lawson think-tank says Brexit may render binding goal on cuts illegal

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2016
      Brexit
      A Brexit myth of Brussels (mis)rule

      Good or bad, imaginative or dull, the important decisions have been taken at home

      Ingram Pinn Illustration
    • Tuesday, 24 May, 2016
      John Kay
      Democracy is being undermined by ‘responsive’ politics

      Proper decision-making is through representatives who will trouble to evaluate the relevant facts

      A Pro-Brexit campaigner hands out leaflets at Liverpool Street station in London, Wednesday, March 23, 2016. With less than three months to go until a June 23 referendum, Britain's anti-EU campaigners are bitterly divided, with two rival camps battling over which will be the standard-bearer in the campaign, and over how to win the historic vote. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
    • Tuesday, 19 April, 2016
      Brexit
      Gove sets out post-Brexit ‘relationship of free trade’
    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2016
      Brexit
      Nigel Lawson rejects trade reprisals in event of Brexit

      Tory former chancellor says Britain should keep its market open even if EU imposes curbs

      Conservatives for Britain...File photo dated 07/05/13 of former chancellor Nigel Lawson, who has announced he will lead a Conservative campaign to leave the EU. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday October 1, 2015. The Eurosceptic peer said he has taken the role as president of the Conservatives for Britain and will lead a cross-party exit movement ahead of the EU referendum, due to take place by the end of next year. See PA story POLITICS Lawson. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
    • Sunday, 13 March, 2016
      Brexit
      Michael Gove and Gisela Stuart to head Vote Leave group

      Justice secretary and the German-born Labour MP lead campaign to take Britain out of the EU

      (L-R) British Culture Secretary John Whi...(L-R) British Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Michael Gove, Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and Employment Minister at the Department for Work and Pensions Priti Patel attend the launch of the eurosceptic Vote Leave campaign at the group's headquarters in central London on February 20, 2016. Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday begins the daunting challenge of persuading his country to stay in the European Union, after announcing a June 23 referendum on its membership of the bloc. But, with the ruling Conservative Party deeply divided over Britain's place in Europe, six members of his 22-strong team including justice minister Michael Gove had already announced by the end of the day they would campaign to leave. / AFP / POOL / STEFAN ROUSSEAUSTEFAN ROUSSEAU/AFP/Getty Images
    • Wednesday, 3 February, 2016
      Brexit
      Lord Lawson named head of Vote Leave campaign

      High-profile appointment aimed at becoming official Brexit group ahead of referendum vote

      Lord Lawson photographed outside the House of Lords.
    • Thursday, 21 January, 2016
      Property sector
      Buy-to-let landlords rush to beat UK stamp duty surcharge

      Data add to fears of distortion in housing market

    • Sunday, 17 January, 2016
      Brexit
      Cabinet minister to lead Brexit group, says Lord Lawson

      Tory pro and anti-EU groups jockey for position as poll shows UK voters in favour of quitting

      Lord Lawson
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