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" 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. "

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Nigel Lawson

Evidence

Cannot

May

" This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy. "

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

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

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

" Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency. "

" 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. "

" Britain's destiny lies in Europe. "

" We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax. "

" 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 successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. "

" The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Nigel Lawson

I Am

Fully

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

" 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. "

" You do not need to be within the single market to be able to export to the European Union, as we see from the wide range of goods on our shelves every day. "

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

" There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid. "

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

" To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue. "

" Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia. "

" 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. "