Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in han…

- Nigel Lawson

If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat…

- Nigel Lawson

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

- Nigel Lawson

Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly throughout t…

- Nigel Lawson

I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to…

- Nigel Lawson

In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular …

- Nigel Lawson

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbi…

- Nigel Lawson

During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial…

- Nigel Lawson

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

- Nigel Lawson