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Lawsons I And Ii

MY version of history would borrow from Samuel Brittan's account of The Treasury under the Tories (in their 13 years of office which ran to 1964). He invented two successive......

City And Suburban

Nigel marks his anniversary with a farewell from ambush CHRISTOPHER FILDES N igel Lawson's resignation caught me with steam up on the Watercress Line. It was and is a day to......

Necessary Clever Man

F IVE years of pugnacious opposition had to pass before he came, as Financial Secretary, to the Treasury. There he spent alm ost all his ten years in o ff ice (detouring briefly......

Blown

THE Sage of Hinton Blewitt, William Rees-Mogg, has an opposite number at the Palace. The Queen's treasurer and keeper of her privy purse is Sir Shane Blewitt. A former officer......