Brexit makes a nonsense of Nigel Lawson’s struggle against inflation
by William Keegan from on (#35QK8)
As chancellor, his enemy was rising prices - which is precisely what has followed the vote to leave the EU
A few years ago I shared a platform with my old friend Lord Lawson at a conference on our membership of the European Union. This was some time before the infamous referendum. The event was good-tempered, and it will come as no surprise to readers that Lawson was, in a term yet to be coined, a "Leaver", and your correspondent was not.
What surprised me over subsequent coffee and drinks was the number of successful, and obviously intelligent, people in the audience who thanked Lawson and me for having covered the history of the EU. It turned out some of the audience had only the vaguest idea why, to use the original title, the European Economic Community was set up in the first place.
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