right. things, nigel lawson was absolutely riuht. things, nigel lawson was absolutely ri. ht, ., thingsight. some of your critics would say it is exactly what you - right. some of your critics would say it is exactly what you are - right. some of your critics would i say it is exactly what you are doing because it is predicted to go above gdp, but the bank of england has warned they will not be any growth until 2025 and one thing to turn it round is cut the time it takes is to connect pylons up to the national grid. your promise to have the time from 14 years down to seven, is in seven years still far too long, it doesn't sound very ambitious? it might not sound ambitious but it takes about that time to build a big offshore wind farm. we have the three biggest offshore wind farms in the world. but have a fourth. we have become the third largest generator of renewable electricity in europe after germany and norway. we need to do even more. some people have sat in the studio _ we need to do even more. some people have sat in the studio fizzing _ we need to do even more. some people have s

that's nigel lawson, that's right.o view is one of the who in my view is one of the great respect him, he didn't do that. they didn't. that. no they didn't. >> they had much wider range. but it's unfair. but but actually it's unfair. i think to the obe. if think, to pick on the obe. if you look across policy, i mean, the department that we both headed bays, all these departments constrained in a departments are constrained in a way by things like judicial review , all sorts worthy review, all sorts of worthy things, quangos , non—elected things, quangos, non—elected bodies, they're constrained the way that 30 or 40 years ago just didn't so across the didn't happen. so across the piece, politicians have ceded, as you say, more power to unelected quangos . unelected quangos. >> and we we've got a quotation from rachel reeves, apparently that we can show on tax cuts, which i think be interesting to hear from the shadow chancellor in response to last year's autumn statement. >> i warned that the government would pickpocket

thatcher, from the days of margaret thatcher's government, the fact was people like keith joseph, nigel lawson, they were all part of the uh, the angle zenst imperialist network, and the israeli lob lobbies are embedded so deeply in the money coming from the the city of london and elsewhere, so so uh, you know these politicians end up with corporate bodies after they leave their their posts and of course, well it's supposed to. be this revolving door moson, but i just want to bring uh ivon ridley back in to this one, because you talk there about suela brotherman almost daring richy sunak to to sack her, the fact that he cannot, and in some ways kind of walked back a little bit of the damage that was done by her article in the time, saying, ultimately it's for the police chiefs to sort this out, and he'll be you know heavily ensuring that they do and ensuring that they'... take responsibility, how do you find that situation playing out? well, i found myself in the rather bizarre position of defending the head of the metropolitan police, because sir has been put an impossible position now by thi

i can remember when nigel lawson and michael heseltine did shock resignations...r prime ministers. my point is, there is always things going on in westminster, but what people at home care about in a cost of living crisis is the fact that this week, the inflation rate has halved compared to a year ago. are you taking credit for that? you didn't take the blame when it went up to ii%. well, but what i did was i took responsibility for that high inflation. i said, what is it that the chancellor needs to do? rishi sunak said, this is our number one priority. we took very difficult decisions at the autumn statement a year ago to get borrowing and debt under control. that has created the backdrop that has made it possible for the bank of england to do theirjob. and so when people can see when their energy bills are going through the roof, when their shopping bills are going up, when they can see that a government has managed to play its part in halving inflation, they can see that we're getting results on the big priorities that really matter. nice to see david cameron

years have served as finishing schools for conservative cabinet ministers, incubating careers from nigel lawsonse journals of the conservative membership are now in the process of being sold, having been essentially repossessed by lloyds bank. and the deal agreed would see ownership transferred to a fund backed by a former top cnn boss and a fund controlled by the abu dhabi royal family. some tory mps are not happy and want an intervention. here'sjoe. the media mogul wacky races for the telegraph and spectator is well under way. those reportedly linked with the sales include... rupert murdoch's news uk. lord rothermere, owner of the daily mail. paul marshall, the hedge fund millionaire who's got a big stake in gb news. and sheikh mansour bin zyed al nahyan, via his company international media investments. he's the vice president of the united arab emirates and also the owner of manchester city fc. last year they won the treble and now he has his eyes on a different trophy asset. in this takeover battle, his team are the favourites. but the uk government seems likely to call for a var check. som

rip van winkle has awoken after 35 years and thinks nigel lawson is still chancellor.el and hamas will stop all fighting for a four day period with hundreds of people to be released on both sides , security experts are sides, security experts are sceptical about how this could give hamas the upper hand. tomorrow is net migration figures may be more than already record numbers that we got last year. record numbers that we got last year . the uk record numbers that we got last year. the uk is now taking on equal amounts, if not more, family members of those granted working visas . surely the working visas. surely the government needs to

and in fact, it was nigel lawson who said the bank of england should have the free rein over interestrnment , rates and not the government, and thatcher overruled him. >> but we're having green >> but if we're having green policies that are increasing inflation, becomes very inflation, this becomes very distorting the setting of distorting to the setting of interest because if you've distorting to the setting of inte ant because if you've distorting to the setting of inte an extraneous use if you've distorting to the setting of inte an extraneous force: you've distorting to the setting of inte an extraneous force that�*ve distorting to the setting of intean extraneous force that is got an extraneous force that is pushing inflation up, you have to overreact with interest rates because you are working on the rest of the economy . that isn't rest of the economy. that isn't green to squeeze that down to compensate for the green inflationary effect. >> i think that's a that's a that's a fair comment. it should be looked at carefully. >> look at the situation >> but look at the situation we

rip van winkle has awoken after 35 years and thinks nigel lawson is still chancellor.el and hamas will stop all fighting for a four day period with hundreds of people to be released on both sides , security experts are sides, security experts are sceptical about how this could give hamas the upper hand. tomorrow is net migration figures may be more than already record numbers that we got last year. record numbers that we got last year . the uk record numbers that we got last year. the uk is now taking on equal amounts, if not more, family members of those granted working visas . surely the working visas. surely the government needs to crack down on legal migration now and quickly. it's more important numerically than the boats. plus was the

i remember nigel lawson's budget in 1988. it was so radical.se of commons nearly had palpitations and he reduced the top rate from 60 that's what we need. 60 to 40. that's what we need. we need something. they are in the doldrums. they're not going to they need something to win. they need something really exciting. >> adam, do feel though, really exciting. >> .know, do feel though, really exciting. >> .know, dothe feel though, really exciting. >> .know, dothe momentthough, really exciting. >> .know, do the moment we've|, you know, at the moment we've got many people lives got too many people whose lives are too easy sitting at home doing and getting the doing nothing and getting the giro ? giro? >> i mean, that started with tony gordon brown, it tony blair, gordon brown, it become a life style choice if you wanted to be on benefits, you wanted to be on benefits, you could live on benefits . you could live on benefits. again, as someone said earlier , again, as someone said earlier, benefits should be there for those that genuinely need it, thos

but what nigel lawson did amongst many things was through big bang , he things was through big bang,of london and that was it wasn't in his lifetime. of london and that was it wasn't in his lifetime . i'm sorry. it in his lifetime. i'm sorry. it wasn't while he was chancellor . wasn't while he was chancellor. but that legacy, the taxes generated by our financial services sector pays for half the cost of running the nhs. now, if we can do the right things on wednesday so that we unlock that potential for 5 or 10 years time, i think we can do something really amazing for the future of this country and that's what i want to do. >> excellent. thank you so much , >> excellent. thank you so much, chancellor. i will now open up to you. okay. >> you just heard there the chancellor , jeremy hunt, chancellor, jeremy hunt, speaking at the confederation of british industry. i'm still joined here in the studio by liam halligan gb news, economics edhon liam halligan gb news, economics editor. what do you make of that? a rather bizarre brand shout into what he was having for breakfast. i felt that

lord lawson, nigel lawson, only just died and now alistair darling, i think these great statesmen are to christopher hope, our political editor on that . i'm sure editor on that. i'm sure tributes will be flooding in as we speak. >> absolutely. i believe we can cross to christopher hope now joining us from westminster. this will have come as an enormous shock , alastair enormous shock, alastair darling. of course not a particularly old man and someone who in very recent history was right at the forefront of british political debate . british political debate. >> that's right. he was just 70 when he died . when he died. >> a complete shock to those in westminster here. >> no one knew. >> no one knew. >> he was wasn't really aware publicly that he was ill or that he was approaching anywhere near the end of his life. so i met him several times back in the day when he , of course, that day when he, of course, ran that better campaign than to better together campaign than to hold the union together. ahead of indyref vote in 2014. and of the indyref vote in 2014. and also, crucially , he wa

choices would have been perhaps you have reduce borrowing, and i thinkjeremy hunt was quoting nigel lawson the economy, business investment, unlocking business investment, unlocking business investment, unlocking business investment would boost employment, bring investment, the reforms we have made to fti, the planning reforms, all of these things, capital allowances, which all major business investment bodies asked for, their number one asked was making the permanent, we are doing all of that. just the full expensing alone, the obr forecasts that it would bring in £3 billion. in the obr book, it says it is a result— in the obr book, it says it is a result of— in the obr book, it says it is a result of making this permanent, they expect lower investment in the shorter— they expect lower investment in the shorter term because people wanted to invest _ shorter term because people wanted to invest before it expired, so you are going — to invest before it expired, so you are going to— to invest before it expired, so you are going to see lower investment in the next _ are going to see lower inv

and they talk about the laffer curve for the for the rich that that if you have lower taxes nigel lawson and rewarding success. and i think it applies to low earners as well. if people are better off, better off working than they are on benefits, of course that's inevitably going to have a going to impact on their on to have an impact on on their on their motivation to go out and work. by the way, it's also please to see talk about inheritance tax because that's something that the conservatives have been promising back since the george osborne . and the days of george osborne. and i think particularly if they were to go the whole hog and aboush were to go the whole hog and abolish inheritance tax, i think that really would help to motivate a lot of conservative voters people who who don't voters and people who who don't necessarily are not necessarily in the bracket of paying the inheritance tax themselves, but they particularly they feel it's a particularly pernicious thing and particularly when particularly unfair thing when people already paid tax on people have already paid tax on th