Nigel Lawson, chancellor and journalist, 1932-2023

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : In 1988, he cut the top rate of income tax to 40 per cent.
47% : If anything, Lawson's standing on the Tory right grew in the last decade of his life: he championed Brexit and was a leading sceptic of man-made climate change.
44% : He also became a staunch advocate of Brexit, a case he sometimes advanced from his home in France.

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