Financial Times Article Rating

Nigel Lawson, chancellor and journalist, 1932-2023

Apr 03, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    18% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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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.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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