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Chairman of BP who transformed it into a premier league oil company

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2023

OPINION - Rishi Sunak’s climate cowardice has given Keir Starmer a golden chance

When he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak hung a portrait of his predecessor Nigel Lawson behind his desk. This signalled how deeply he identified with the great tax-cutter, champion of privatisation and believer in popular capitalism. But it is also worth recalling that Lawson, who died in April,…

Evening Standard · Aug 1, 2023

‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2023

Nigel Lawson: Innovative chancellor who ushered in an economic shift

His various tax reforms made under Thatcher helped move economic policy from Keynesianism to monetarism

The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2023

Labour is still in thrall to the low tax regime championed by my friend Nigel Lawson

The key legacy of the former chancellor, who died last week, was to put the fear of god into the party’s leaders

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2023

How Nigel Lawson left his mark on British politics

Letters: Stephen Locke, Lawson’s former private secretary, on how rewarding it was to work for him, and Margaret Beckett on his divisive legacy. Plus letters from Mark Hebert, Valerie Gidlow and Greg Quiery

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2023

Tensions at the top of Labour over Keir Starmer’s rightward shift

Starmer and his chief pollster are said to be obsessed with chasing the Red Wall

Evening Standard · Apr 6, 2023

Nigel Lawson taught me preparation needed to make radical change, says PM

Rishi Sunak wrote about the lessons he learned from the Tory former chancellor.

The Independent UK · Apr 5, 2023

A committed unbeliever: Nigel Lawson left the Tory party a complex, divisive legacy

Lesser politicians still try to emulate the clever contrarianism of Thatcher’s chancellor. That’s risky, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2023

Nigella Lawson breaks silence following death of her politician father Nigel Lawson aged 91

Lord Lawson’s political career spanned nearly five decades and acclaimed chef Nigella was one of his six children

Evening Standard · Apr 5, 2023