By Paul Homewood
Much has been written about Nigel Lawson, who died last week, but one quality jumps right off the page. Lord Lawson didn’t very much care if he was liked, and didn’t ingratiate himself with fashionable opinion.
This is exceptionally rare in a politician, as it requires a combination of personal confidence and great courage. Fortunately, Lawson had both in abundance.
What a refreshing contrast to today’s politician or policy operative. Their craving for approval was savaged by James McSweeney in The Critic last week, as the Conservative “Please Invite Me to Dinner Brigade”. This was, he wrote, “a caucus best defined by an obsessive desire to be liked in London media circles and bitter opposition to the core values of their voters”.
By contrast, in his final book Lawson scorns “feelgood measures… popular among parts of the Western middle classes”. Indulging them has only encouraged younger…
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