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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. "
Nigel Lawson
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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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Truth Is
Nobody
Truth
" 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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Day
You
Single
" 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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Possible
Policy
" 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
" One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence. "
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Back
Change
Confidence
" 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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Feel
Way
Thought
" The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right. "
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Enough
Trouble
Trying
" The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. "
Nigel Lawson
Closest
English
NHS
" This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy. "
Nigel Lawson
Healthy
Self-Confidence
Hold
" 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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Leave
People
Investment
" The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration. "
Nigel Lawson
Immigrants
Accept
Country
" 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
" When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively. "
Nigel Lawson
Should
Time
View
" 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
" 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
" In terms of the arguments, I think the pro-Leave campaign is winning them all. "
Nigel Lawson
Them
I Think
Campaign
" 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
" 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
" 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
Nature
Twice
Financial
" 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
" 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. "
Nigel Lawson
Even
Package
Poll
" 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
" 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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Past
Failure
Same
" 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
" I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance. "
Nigel Lawson
Am
I Am
Fully
" Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax. "
Nigel Lawson
You
Tax
Same
" 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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Hard
Resignation
Without
" 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
" 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