Nigel Lawson: ex Tory chancellor dies aged 91

[Englishboy]

Nigel Lawson: Reforming chancellor dies aged 91

PM Rishi Sunak is one of those paying tribute, calling him an "inspiration to me and many others".

www.bbc.co.uk

Former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson has died at the age of 91.

Holding several cabinet posts under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, he was seen as one of the most consequential of all post-war UK chancellors.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called him an "inspiration to me and many others".

He is credited with creating powerful entrepreneurial forces in a decade also remembered by many communities around the UK as a time of widening inequality and painful deindustrialisation.

Lord Lawson is survived by six children, including Nigella Lawson, a food writer and celebrity cook.

 

[Angela Channing]

Although it's always sad when someone dies, Nigel Lawson stands out as being one the most consistently wrong national figures in my lifetime. He has been wrong on almost every major judgment and his ideas and policies have caused enormous intergenerational and geographical inequality, stagnant productivity, a massive personal debt burden and the toxic effects of Brexit for which is was a enthusiastic supporter. He was also a vocal climate change denier. The UK is still reeling from the damage he inflicted on the country.