Lawson, 90, to quit the Lords

TORY former chancellor Nigel Lawson has retired from the House of Lords aged 90, ending a parliamentary career stretching back nearly five decades.

The Conservative grandee and leading Brexiteer stepped down on December 31.

Lord Lawson represented the former Leicestershire constituency of Blaby in the Commons from 1974 until 1992, before joining the Lords the same year.

He served as Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor from 1983 to 1989.

In April 2019 he warned of ‘undesirable insurrectionary forces’ if Parliament refused to accept the result of the Brexit vote.

Lord Lawson was also founding chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which has lobbied against climate change policies such as net zero.