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...Many economists also criticise Geoffrey Howe’s decision to raise taxes in 1981 in the depths of a recession, while others take issue with Nigel Lawson’s Budget in 1988, which cut taxes sharply as the economy...
...Focusing on Kenyan athlete Geoffrey Mutai, Caesar’s book is an engaging study of the extremes of obsession and the limits of physiology....
...Fewer than three years later, Mr Lawson retired and was ultimately succeeded by Mr O’Hanley....
...After the resignation of Lawson in 1989, and of Thatcher a year later, later chancellors were left to repair their financial legacy....
...Born in 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Margaret Hilda Roberts was the younger daughter of a corner-shop grocer, Alfred Roberts, and his wife Beatrice....
...Gentle and sharp, the book is full of terrible food and great insights on subjects ranging from hidden rubbish bins (good) to Geoffrey Chaucer (bad)....
...“I think it’s tragic,” said Geoffrey Kabaservice, the author of a recent book on the modern Republican party....
...Where I Left My Soul , by Jérôme Ferrari, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, MacLehose Press, RRP£12 Set over three days in 1957 during the Algerian war, Ferrari’s award-winning book is a devastating study...
...Beware of Chancellors who claim too much credit for “creating ‘miracles’” eg Lawson and Brown....
...Remember Mr Lawson’s decision to restrict mortgage interest relief in such a way as to get two years’ worth of first-time buyers buying property in 3 months!...
...Geoffrey Dicks, Novus Capital Markets Getting inflation down and keeping it down was not an illusion....
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