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" A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household. "

" As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved. "

" Britain's destiny lies in Europe. "

" God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own which would probably comprise a very low level of corporation tax - tax on corporate profits - and perhaps a low level of corporate sales tax, because sales are where they are, and sales in this country are sales here, which we can tax here. "

" However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures. "

" I am delighted to accept the chairmanship of Vote Leave, to help ensure that the organisation is fully prepared for the start of the referendum campaign. "

" I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance. "

" I am not anti-European. "

" I am not surprised Cameron says he supports what Gillard is doing in Australia because we have, in the U.K., a totally misconceived climate change plan as well. "

" I don't think the government needs to be frightened of the banks in the slightest. "

" If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy. "

" If you punish the banks, all you are doing is reducing the banks' capital, which you want to increase, and punishing shareholders, who have done nothing wrong. "

" I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue. "

" I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly. "

" I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting. "

" In terms of the arguments, I think the pro-Leave campaign is winning them all. "

" I remember when we ignored Europe and we were totally committed to the Commonwealth and the former Empire, and thought imperial preference was the only thing which enabled us to survive, that was a mistake, and it's a similar mistake to feel Britain can't be a hugely successfully country - economically and in any other way - outside the E.U. "

" I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market. "

" It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice. "

" Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you. "

" No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not. "

" One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence. "

" One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children. "

" Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the greenest government ever, but the definition of green is immature... I don't deny for a moment that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are so many other factors that affect climate. It is more complicated than the computer models that we are using. What the truth is, nobody knows. "

" Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax. "

" She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument. "

" The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part. "

" The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro. "

" The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. "

" The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U. "

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