62 Quotes by Nigel Lawson

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.

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

I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.

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

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

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.

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.

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.

Britain's destiny lies in Europe.