Changes to taxation also played a part, with changes made by Chancellor Nigel Lawson as well as Gordon Brown.
In 1989, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson resigned over policy differences with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
As Nigel Lawson put it: the NHS is the closest thing the British people have to a national religion.
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Hawkishness was his motif as a newspaper columnist: he is the most successful scribbler-turned-politician since Nigel Lawson, a former chancellor.
Already, he is the longest serving post-war chancellor of the exchequer, having wrested this accolade from Nigel Lawson, the Tory finance minister in 1983-89.
Her father is the former Conservative chancellor, Nigel Lawson, and her mother was Vanessa Salmon, beautiful socialite and heiress to the Lyons Corner House empire.
Nigel Lawson, whose quote begins this piece, served Thatcher as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1983-89, and he published The View From No. 11 in 1992.
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If Nigel Lawson, a former British chancellor, had known in the late 1980s that demand was growing faster than the official figures showed, he might have tightened policy sooner.
Since Nigel Lawson lowered the top tax rate from 60% to 40% in 1988, the share of total income-tax revenues paid by the top 5% of taxpayers has shot up.
When Margaret Thatcher ran into disputes which forced the resignations of her foreign secretary, Geoffrey Howe, and her chancellor, Nigel Lawson, and opened up a party rift over Europe, her leadership was fatally damaged.
Nigel Lawson quit as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the autumn of 1989, and he was followed a year later by Geoffrey Howe, who delivered a devastating resignation speech in the House of Commons.
Disagreements with Chancellor Nigel Lawson saw him resign in 1989, and when Geoffrey Howe too resigned in 1990, citing her style of leadership as one of his main reasons for quitting, Thatcher's premiership was fatally wounded.
"It's a very interesting piece of research, " said David Whitehouse, science advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation -- a charity set up by former UK government finance minister and vocal critic of climate change policy, Nigel Lawson.
And she was ably assisted by, amongst others, Lord (Geoffrey) Howe, Lord (Nigel) Lawson, Lord (David) Young and Lord (Norman) Tebbit.
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