Obituary

Nigel Lawson, UK Chancellor in Thatcher Boom Years, Dies at 91

  • Active in British politics for nearly half a century
  • Oversaw the so-called Big Bang financial deregulation in 1986

Nigel Lawson in 2016.

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

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Nigel Lawson, the chancellor of the exchequer who presided over the boom-and-bust of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain in the 1980s, has died. He was 91.

His death was reportedBloomberg Terminal by the Daily Telegraph on April 3. It didn’t give details.