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‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s Labour are not the Tories. But they are timid

The opposition must accept there will be huge challenges if they win the election. But they do not have to accept Brexit

The Guardian - UK

Celebrity deaths in 2023 - famous faces lost from Paul O'Grady to Tina Turner

Whether it's entertaining millions, inspiring people or helping to change the world for the better - these stars all left a lasting impact before they died in 2023

Daily Mirror

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There is a difference between biological sex and gender identity

For too long, language and statistics have blurred the lines between the two

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Lawson obituary: radical Tory chancellor who oversaw City’s ‘Big Bang’

One of the last of the “big beasts” of late 20th century politics, Nigel Lawson, who has died aged 91, became Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor in 1983, and remained in the role for six years – making him, at the time, the longest-serving chancellor since David Lloyd George.

The Week

Nigel Lawson: Innovative chancellor who ushered in an economic shift

His various tax reforms made under Thatcher helped move economic policy from Keynesianism to monetarism

The Independent UK

Labour is still in thrall to the low tax regime championed by my friend Nigel Lawson

The key legacy of the former chancellor, who died last week, was to put the fear of god into the party’s leaders

The Guardian - UK

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How Nigel Lawson left his mark on British politics

Letters: Stephen Locke, Lawson’s former private secretary, on how rewarding it was to work for him, and Margaret Beckett on his divisive legacy. Plus letters from Mark Hebert, Valerie Gidlow and Greg Quiery

The Guardian - UK

Tensions at the top of Labour over Keir Starmer’s rightward shift

Starmer and his chief pollster are said to be obsessed with chasing the Red Wall

Evening Standard

Nigel Lawson taught me preparation needed to make radical change, says PM

Rishi Sunak wrote about the lessons he learned from the Tory former chancellor.

The Independent UK

A committed unbeliever: Nigel Lawson left the Tory party a complex, divisive legacy

Lesser politicians still try to emulate the clever contrarianism of Thatcher’s chancellor. That’s risky, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Nigella Lawson breaks silence following death of her politician father Nigel Lawson aged 91

Lord Lawson’s political career spanned nearly five decades and acclaimed chef Nigella was one of his six children

Evening Standard

Nigella Lawson breaks silence after her father Nigel dies aged 91

He leaves behind six children, including food writer and celebrity chef Nigella, journalist Dominic Lawson and Tom Lawson, headmaster of Eastbourne College

Daily Mirror

How Nigel Lawson turned postwar economic consensus on its head

Former chancellor fundamentally changed the UK economy during his six-year stint at the Treasury, and not much has changed since then

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The Guardian - UK

Nigel Lawson obituary

One of the most influential postwar Conservative chancellors seen as the main architect of Thatcher’s radical economic reforms

Evening Standard

OPINION - Nigel Lawson’s legacy: boom, bust and a national treasure

It usually comes back to inflation. Study any period of British history from 1945 onwards, and there’s a good chance you’ll spot ministers making strange and sometimes desperate decisions in the name of taming – or often to avoid taming – rapidly rising prices.

Evening Standard

The City needs a fresh champion like Nigel Lawson

City Comment: The huge influx of foreign money that flooded into London in the wake of Big Bang marked the start of a Golden Age for the capital

Evening Standard

Who was Nigel Lawson? Nigella Lawson’s father and Thatcher cabinet minister dies

Lawson, a former journalist, was the father of six, including celebrity chef Nigella Lawson

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The Independent UK

Tributes continue from Tory grandees following death of Nigel Lawson

Former prime minister Sir John Major said Baron Lawson of Blaby will be ‘long remembered’.

The Guardian - UK

Thérèse Coffey says infrastructure such as super sewers ‘could add hundreds to people’s bills’ – as it happened

Latest updates: environment secretary says ‘there is no way you can stop pollution overnight’ as ministers attempt to clean up rivers and seas

The Independent UK

Free-market ex-UK Treasury chief Nigel Lawson dies

Nigel Lawson, the tax-cutting U.K. Treasury chief under the late Margaret Thatcher and a lion of Conservative politics in the late 20th century has died

The National (Scotland)

Former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson dies aged 91

Conservative former chancellor Nigel Lawson, father to six children including celebrity cook and food writer Nigella Lawson, has died at the age of…

Tribune News Service

Nigel Lawson, UK chancellor in Thatcher boom years, dies at 91

Nigel Lawson, the chancellor of the exchequer who presided over the boom-and-bust of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain in the 1980s, has died. He was 91.

The Independent UK

What the papers say – April 4

Sentencing of Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s killer takes centre stage on front pages.

The Independent UK

Nigel Lawson: Margaret Thatcher’s ‘unassailable’ chancellor who quit in acrimony

Chancellor from 1983 to 1989, he was widely credited with winning the 1987 election for the government through the success of his economic strategy.

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