- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.
- Economic Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain's destiny lies in Europe.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.
- Forecasts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020