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...(In a speech of amazing gracelessness, Nigel Lawson, the reforming chancellor of the 1980s, was credited with almost nothing....
...He gained a first in PPE at Oxford and was one of the numerous clever Oxbridge graduates recruited to the Financial Times in the 1950s by then editor Sir Gordon Newton....
...At the same time, Starmer faces criticism over a move by the party that could result in the expulsion of Labour veteran Neal Lawson, a former speechwriter for ex-premier Gordon Brown and head of the soft-left...
...Chris GilesI think we’re not quite living in the era, but he is one of the most consequential chancellors of the postwar period and certainly in the last 40 years, only Gordon Brown as chancellor would rival...
...Former MP Emma Reynolds and Kirsty McNeill, once a Gordon Brown aide, are also seen as ministerial calibre....
...And of course Gordon Brown’s move to make the bank independent has been a gift to politicians who can escape the blame....
...The agency has worked with brands including Mulberry, Sainsbury, Primark and L’Oréal; and individuals including footballer Raheem Sterling, and chefs Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson....
...This mortgage subsidy fuelled house price growth, but sensibly no chancellor after Geoffrey Howe raised the relief’s value, allowing Gordon Brown to abolish it in 2000....
...The worst in modern times was between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, because the latter wanted the former’s job....
...“Our P&Ls just don’t have that much wriggle room,” Lawson said....
...Stirring together “family, food and the art of a good chit-chat”, it has featured Ed Sheeran, Nigella Lawson and Sandi Toksvig, and is now in a fourth season....
...But the last chancellor to resign over an overpowerful adviser was Nigel Lawson in 1989, protesting against Margaret Thatcher’s aide Alan Walters....
...On Wednesday, Robert Chote, outgoing head of the Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK fiscal watchdog, said Mr Sunak was more like Gordon Brown, the former Labour chancellor....
...He was Tony Blair’s Downing Street adviser on European affairs and Gordon Brown’s permanent representative to the EU....
...The MoD said the audit ordered by Sir Gordon would “feed into” the space strategy which is now due to be published in the next few months....
...Labour chancellors such as Callaghan, Denis Healey and Brown appear to get an easier ride than their Conservative peers, such as Nigel Lawson, Norman Lamont and George Osborne....
...George Osborne and Gordon Brown, for better or for worse, each drove the domestic policy agenda from within 11 Downing Street....
...Pimco has a global advisory board that includes former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, former US Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, former European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet and...
...Awkward, then, that some of those who jumped or were pushed out (investment banker Mark Taylor, analyst Adam Lawson et al) ended up at N+1 Singer....
...Nearly a century later, Gordon Brown’s Budget in 2001, where the then-chancellor hiked National Insurance contributions to fund increased investment in public services, is also widely regarded as a success...
...Three decades on, Nigel Lawson’s 1988 Budget, which cut the top rate of income tax from 60 per cent to 40 per cent, has still made the most lasting impact....
...Sarah Gordon, let me start with you. Businesses are clearly getting worried about the pace of negotiations and the length of any transition....
...On Tory communications strategy, three men — Christopher Lawson, Gordon Reece and Tony Shrimsley — could claim to be the principal adviser....
...And whenever a chancellor has assumed higher trend growth, such as Nigel Lawson in the late 1980s or Gordon Brown in the 2000s, they have usually had cause to regret it....
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