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...Chancellors stretching back to Nigel Lawson in 1988 have considered overhauling this relic of empire....
...When Jeremy Hunt announced plans for a UK Isa at last week’s budget, it echoed a similar proposal by one of his august predecessors as chancellor nearly 40 years ago....
...For all Starmer’s underrated toughness, this is still a party that twice offered Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister....
...Plus, to the disappointment of many marketing departments, Jeremy Hunt, chancellor, has named it the decidedly less catchy “UK Isa”....
...Jeremy Hunt, now serving in Number 11, is again in circumstances constrained in part by the Brexit that Lawson helped cause....
...John McDonnell, who was shadow chancellor under the leftwing leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2015-20, criticised “factional behaviour”....
...As Nigel Lawson once said, the problem isn’t getting Conservative MPs to accept tax rises: it’s getting them to sign off any spending cuts....
...Jeremy Hunt has defended an overhaul to UK financial services rules aimed at boosting growth within the City of London and relaxing some of the measures introduced unilaterally after the financial crash...
...Jeremy Hunt, an improbable lambada enthusiast, has performed a speedy reversal on corporate tax. In last year’s Tory leadership election, he wanted to slash the headline rate to 15 per cent....
...“We believe this is a start of a multi-step process . . . of reintroducing Venezuela into the financial mainstream,” said Nick Lawson, chief executive of London-based brokerage Ocean Wall and a Venezuelan...
...Nigel Lawson made the City of London one of the world’s top financial centres by competitive deregulation. With our Brexit autonomy, we can do the same for our high growth sectors....
...Nigel Lawson told me that in his experience all radical ideas had come from the political side of the Treasury. He’s probably right. Politicians inject direction and urgency....
...Leader Keir Starmer’s troops insist that cleaning up after the Jeremy Corbyn era demands rapid and ruthless methods....
...Jeremy Hunt has warned trade unions not to jeopardise Britain’s recovery, saying that high pay demands will hit the fight against inflation and harm the workers they are trying to protect....
...The second lesson of Nigel Lawson’s Big Bang is that the most important driver of global success is not tax subsidies but competition....
...Jeremy Hunt has overruled the Bank of England on a key part of insurance reforms intended to unlock tens of billions of pounds of investment into the real economy....
...From 2015 to 2020, the UK’s opposition Labour party was led by Jeremy Corbyn, the radical leftist of whom the British historian Jeremy Black once wrote: “He has never seen an anti-American cause he did not...
...Replacing the polarising far-left veteran Jeremy Corbyn, Starmer has proved a steady pair of hands, turning the party around to the extent where it is in a position to capitalise on the Tories’ woes....
...In 1988, chancellor Nigel Lawson announced couples could no longer pool tax relief on their mortgage interest, but didn’t wind up the scheme for another six months....
...But its move is the latest sign of a bitter battle for control of a group of restaurants that count TV cook Nigella Lawson and fashion designer Paul Smith among a long roster of glitzy clientele....
...In August 2019, a statue by Jeremy Deller was unveiled in Manchester to commemorate the 200th anniversary of which event?...
...Jeremy Hunt, former health secretary who chairs the health select committee, called for the change in policy on Thursday....
...Jeremy Hunt, UK health secretary until 2018, said Asia had provided inspiration....
...Thus there are lessons from the [Nigel] Lawson boom and bust of the late 1980s....
...The fact that Mr Johnson failed to defend or back Sir Kim while Jeremy Hunt rushed injudiciously to do so surely shows which politician is wiser. Roger Lawson Chislehurst, Kent, UK...
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