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" However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures. "
Nigel Lawson
Evidence
Cannot
May
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" Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax. "
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" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
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Financial
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Accept
I Am
Leave
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
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Without
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Kingdom
God
Sales
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Day
You
Single
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Plan
Australia
Change
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Past
Failure
Same
" I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly. "
Nigel Lawson
Government
You
Say
" I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market. "
Nigel Lawson
Economic
Leaving
Positive
" We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. "
Nigel Lawson
System
Had Enough
Enough
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Experience
Respect
Too
" I don't think the government needs to be frightened of the banks in the slightest. "
Nigel Lawson
Think
Government
Needs
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Government
Man
Young Man
" I am not anti-European. "
Nigel Lawson
Am
I Am
" Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you. "
Nigel Lawson
Thank You
Doing
Outside
" I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue. "
Nigel Lawson
World
Tax
Source
" The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. "
Nigel Lawson
Closest
English
NHS
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Creation
Heart
Relationship
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Nothing
You
Wrong
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Business
Lie
World
" No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not. "
Nigel Lawson
Long
Great
Post
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Successful
Possible
Policy
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Feel
Way
Thought
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Wife
Me
Time
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Campaign
Fear
Never
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
She
Work
Government
" You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system. "
Nigel Lawson
New
You
Find
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Energy
Thought
Environment
" To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. "
Nigel Lawson
Appear
Unable
Govern