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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. "

Nigel Lawson

Wife

Time

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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

I Am

Leave

" In terms of the arguments, I think the pro-Leave campaign is winning them all. "

" 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. "

" I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance. "

Nigel Lawson

I Am

Fully

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" I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market. "

" I am not anti-European. "

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I Am

" I don't think the government needs to be frightened of the banks in the slightest. "

" However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures. "

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