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 reported by the Daily Telegraph on April 3. It didn’t give details.