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" 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
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Work
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" The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right. "
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" The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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You
Find
" 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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Nobody
Truth
" I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance. "
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I Am
Fully
" To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. "
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Appear
Unable
Govern
" 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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Time
View
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
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London
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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. "
Nigel Lawson
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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. "
Nigel Lawson
Past
Failure
Same
" I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue. "
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Tax
Source
" 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. "
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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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Had Enough
Enough
" 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. "
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Way
Thought
" 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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" 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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" The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration. "
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" 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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" Britain's destiny lies in Europe. "
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Britain
" 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 have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly. "
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" I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market. "
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