Nigel Lawson, the chancellor of the exchequer who presided over the boom-and-bust of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain in the 1980s, has died. He was 91.
His death was reported by the Daily Telegraph on April 3. It didn’t give details.
Lawson, one of the Conservative Party’s best-known figures, remained in politics for nearly half a century after he was first elected as a member of the House of Commons for Blaby in Leicestershire, central England, in 1974 — a position he held until 1992. After retiring from the lower chamber, he was nominated to the upper, unelected House of Lords, in which he remained active until Dec. 31, 2022.
