The Latest Breaking News from Nigel Lawson

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to deliver biggest tax cuts since Nigel Lawson’s Budget 34 years ago, says IFS

The Institute for Fiscal Studies also warned the Government’s dash for growth may not deliver on anything like the scale hoped for

Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2022

Kwarteng follows dirty work at Treasury with bonus cap farce

After sacking the his top official, the new chancellor’s next act was politically crass and insensitive. It does not bode well

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2022

Liz Truss: No energy rationing or new taxes if I become prime minister

Her rival for the Tory leadership, Rishi Sunak, said he was telling the country what it needs to hear about the future.

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022

‘Nigels’ are threatened species in UK, say stats experts... as they reveal baby names that are disappearing

“Nigels” are a threatened species in Britain, official stats experts said on Monday.

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2022

Brexit was bad, but Boris Johnson’s glib lawbreaking is much worse

The PM’s damaging slogan about leaving the EU is as nothing when compared with his attitude to following his own rules

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022

Anti-onshore wind campaigner put in charge of council’s ‘green masterplan’

Lincolnshire county council’s Colin Davie has vowed to ‘restart old fights’ and oppose new onshore wind

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2022

Lady Howe of Idlicote obituary

One of the first ‘people’s peers’ admired for her intellectual independence and commitment to public service

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2022

We’ve been running the economy hot — and are about to pay the price

John Maynard Keynes famously wrote that “practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Yes: new trends in economic thinking can be wrong. That’s what seems to be happening now. The rapid rise of inflation over the…

Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2022