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" One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence. "
Nigel Lawson
Back
Change
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" 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. "
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" I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration. "
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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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" I am not anti-European. "
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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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" 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
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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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Nobody
Truth
" 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
" 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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Financial
" The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right. "
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Trying
" 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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" I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market. "
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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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Man
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" The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. "
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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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" However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures. "
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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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" 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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" We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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God
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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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Govern