Brexit makes a nonsense of Nigel Lawson’s struggle against inflation

As chancellor, his enemy was rising prices – which is precisely what has followed the vote to leave the EUA few years ago I shared a platform with my old friend Lord Lawson at a conference on our membership of the European Union. This was some time before the infamous referendum. The event was good-tempered, and it will come as no surprise to readers that Lawson was, in a term yet to be coined, a “Leaver”, and your correspondent was not.What surprised me over subsequent coffee