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The chancellor should stress tax cuts are neither affordable nor a priority to UK voters

City Comment: The reforms Jeremy Hunt wants to recreate brought a recession, soaring interest rates and boom-and-bust house prices

Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt urged to act over report showing poorest families spend 63p in each £1 on food and energy bills

Hunt draws comparisons with Thatcher’s tax-slashing chancellor as he claims UK is ready for economic boom

Nigella’s Amsterdam Christmas is a one-off BBC1 special that sees the chef explore the ‘Venice of the North’ at Christmastime.

Treasury select committee says Edinburgh reforms launched a year ago have had little impact on UK economy

The former chancellor’s daughter, TV cook Nigella Lawson, was joined by senior Conservatives at the service of thanksgiving for her father.

It is the concept dominating our politics, but unless people have a clear idea what it means, the debate will isolate them further, says author and broadcaster Steve Richards

Thinktank says increasing capital gains tax rates to same as employment tax would raise £10bn extra

Chairman of BP who transformed it into a premier league oil company

When he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak hung a portrait of his predecessor Nigel Lawson behind his desk. This signalled how deeply he identified with the great tax-cutter, champion of privatisation and believer in popular capitalism. But it is also worth recalling that Lawson, who died in April,…