Nigel Lawson, Tory titan. One of the five most influential politicians of modern times, and the only one not to have become Prime Minister | Conservative Home

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : He helped to create the Medium-Term Financial Strategy, with its control of public spending - the foundation of his economic approach.
51% : Boris Johnson for implementing Brexit.
50% : You will read a great deal today about Lawson as a tax cutter, especially from the right-wing entertainment industry, but he always saw sound money as the foundation of economic policy - which meant putting public spending control first.
43% : Within this framework, he cut income taxes, simplified the system, deregulated, reformed the supply side, oversaw the "Big Bang" and trailblazingly privatised.
42% : Gordon Brown for furthering the Lawson legacy in one respect (by making the Bank of England independent) but destroying it in most others - turning the Treasury into a welfare department, through his use of tax credits in the form of social security, and eventually raising the top rate of tax.

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