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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures. "
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" We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. "
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" You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue. "
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" 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. "
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" This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy. "
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" 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. "
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Respect
Too
" 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. "
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Man
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" Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you. "
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Doing
Outside
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not. "
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Great
Post
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively. "
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" The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration. "
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