The Latest Breaking News from Nigel Lawson

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,…

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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