Nigel Lawson: Former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson dies aged 91 [View all]
The former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson has died at the age of 91. Lawson was the MP for the Blaby constituency from 1974 to 1992 and served in numerous cabinet positions in the government of Margaret Thatcher.
He became chancellor in 1983 and oversaw a period of economic growth known as the Lawson Boom before resigning in 1989 amid disagreements with Thatcher over policy....
The former prime minister Boris Johnson described Lawson as a “giant” and an “original flame of free-market Conservatism”. “He was a tax-cutter and simplifier who helped transform the economic landscape and helped millions of British people achieve their dreams,” he wrote...
He remained active in politics throughout his later years, serving as president of pro-Brexit campaign group Conservatives for Britain and as chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a thinktank promoting scepticism about climate change.
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