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...The dinner with Hunt and former chancellors Sajid Javid, Lord Philip Hammond and Lord Norman Lamont was won by Conservative donors Selva and Tharshiny Pankaj....
...It was interesting to see the writers’ credits on the 7 inch disc: “Jerry Allison — Norman Petty”....
...His comments echo those made by then Conservative chancellor Norman Lamont, who in 1991 — ahead of a surprise general election win for the Tories — declared “the green shoots of economic spring are appearing...
...Norman Lamont, the former Tory chancellor, also claimed to have detected “green shoots of economic spring” in 1991, ahead of an unexpected election win for John Major’s Conservatives the following year....
...These privatisations “summed up the Thatcher years”, reckoned former Conservative chancellor Norman Lamont. Ten chancellors later, Jeremy Hunt wants “to get Sid investing again”....
...There are auspicious precedents for such a move: John Major, who won an unexpected election victory in April 1992, announced a vote the day after his chancellor Norman Lamont introduced a 20p income tax...
...Norman Lamont, Major’s chancellor, introduced a 20p income tax rate on the first £2,000 of earnings in his March 1992 Budget, the day before Major called the election....
...Onetime social realists such as Norman Lewis took refuge in the abstract glowing sublime....
...The chancellors who came immediately after him — John Major, Norman Lamont and Ken Clarke — were all in a sense destroyed by his failures....
...In the run-up to the 1992 election Norman Lamont, then chancellor, proclaimed the “green shoots” of recovery; on polling day, the Tories defied all expectations and held on to power....
...Economics suggests he should front-load the extra pain, putting in place almost immediate spending cuts and tax increases similar to the programmes followed by Norman Lamont and Ken Clarke in the early 1990s...
...In the 1990s, Norman Lamont and Ken Clarke consulted the so-called Treasury wise men for advice and economic forecasting until the group was scrapped by Gordon Brown when he became chancellor in 1997....
...“Norman was smacking you across the face with that raw energy, the funky tracks....
...Lord Norman Lamont, who was the Tory chancellor on “Black Wednesday” in 1992 when John Major’s government was humiliated by sterling’s ejection from the European exchange rate mechanism, said a U-turn was...
...Norman Lamont was the last UK chancellor to handle high inflation and recession, in the early ’90s....
...Former Tory chancellor Lord Norman Lamont told the BBC he was worried about the contest turning into a “Dutch auction of tax cuts” that may not be affordable....
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...The opening ceremony was performed by Lord Norman Lamont, who had been the Conservative party chancellor of the exchequer on “Black Wednesday”, when Britain had exited the European Exchange Rate Mechanism...
...Lamont, and the markets endured a nervous summer as the pound hovered in the danger zone before it dropped out of the ERM in September....
...In the pre-Covid days when former chancellors could make a decent income on the after-dinner and conference circuit, Norman Lamont would tell a good story about his first day in office....
...Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, the independent fiscal watchdog, said this meant the chancellor had “announced more tax rises this year than in any single year since Norman...
...Sebastian PayneYou have to have the green shoots that Norman Lamont talked about in the run-up to the ‘92 election to say, “Okay, inflation is coming down, we’ve got the economy back on track, we’ve got...
...George Parker The core theme of that was not that the economy is going gangbusters — far from it — but that the “green shoots of recovery”, as Norman Lamont puts it, are starting to sprout....
...Norman Lamont, a former chancellor of the exchequer and ex-trade envoy to Iran and chair of the British Iranian Chamber of Commerce, was a former director of Balli Group....
...Meghnad Desai (chair) Norman Lamont David Marsh Christopher Tugendhat Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, London EC2, UK...
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