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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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" One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence. "

" I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue. "

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

" Britain's destiny lies in Europe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not. "

" 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. "

" To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. "

" We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. "

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

" You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy. "

" I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I am not anti-European. "

Nigel Lawson

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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. "

" The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration. "

Nigel Lawson

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