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| − | [[Nigel Vinson]] (born 27 January 1931) is a British businessman, member of the [[House of Lords]] and right-wing operative. <ref>[http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/cps2.asp Margaret Thatcher & the Centre for Policy Studies, 1974-79], Margaret Thatcher Foundation, accessed 21 April 2010.</ref> He was created a life peer as [[Baron Vinson of Roddam Dene]] in the County of Northumberland On 7 February 1985. | + | [[Nigel Vinson]] (born 27 January 1931) is a British businessman, member of the [[House of Lords]] and right-wing operative. <ref>[http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/cps2.asp Margaret Thatcher & the Centre for Policy Studies, 1974-79], Margaret Thatcher Foundation, accessed 21 April 2010.</ref> He was created a life peer as [[Baron Vinson of Roddam Dene]] in the County of Northumberland On 7 February 1985. Vinson helped set up the [[Centre for Policy Studies]] with [[Keith Joseph]], [[Alfred Sherman]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>Keith Joseph, Our debt to a slayer of sacred cows, ''The Times'', 25-March-1992</ref> |
==Corporate activism and think tanks== | ==Corporate activism and think tanks== | ||
Revision as of 21:03, 5 May 2011
Nigel Vinson (born 27 January 1931) is a British businessman, member of the House of Lords and right-wing operative. [1] He was created a life peer as Baron Vinson of Roddam Dene in the County of Northumberland On 7 February 1985. Vinson helped set up the Centre for Policy Studies with Keith Joseph, Alfred Sherman and Margaret Thatcher.[2]
Contents
Corporate activism and think tanks
In 1972 Vinson was a Council member of the corporate propaganda body Aims of Industry.[3] In May 1972 Vinson started the process of creating the Nigel Vinson Charitable Trust which was registered with the Charity Commission in January 1973.[4] Vinson was appointed treasurer of the Centre for Policy Studies at its foundation in 1974.[5]
In 1984 Vinson attended a meeting of Margaret Thatcher's closest advisors organised by the Centre for Policy Studies. Vinson was to be the chairman of the research on the topic of 'personal capital formation'. The overall research program was to be coordinated by Elizabeth Cottrell and it contained 18 policy groups - each with 10 members, made up from politicians, academics and businessmen. The other significant groups were:
- Trade-union reform -- chaired by Sir Leonard Neal, once an official of the transport and general workers' union, later on the British Rail board and then chairman of the commission on industrial relations under Edward Heath.
- Soviet relations -- chaired by Lord Thomas, chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies.
- Defence -- chaired by Professor Reginald Victor Jones of the University of Aberdeen, who wrote the definitive account of Britain's wartime secret "Ultra" decoder.
- Urban and housing problems -- chaired by Mr Jimmy James of Grosvenor Estates. It is concentrating on revival of the private rented sector.
- Education -- chaired by Baroness Cox, another academic and a strong supporter of selective rather than comprehensive education.
- Deregulation -- chaired by Mr Russell Lewis of the Daily Telegraph.[6]
Views and activities
Pensions
In April 1983, the Centre for Policy Studies published a pamphlet by Vinson, then a deputy chairman of Barclays Bank. Entitled Personal and Portable Pensions for All, it challenged the role of workplace pensions. The concept of personal pensions was taken up by the Conservative Government's review group in the face of opposition from the Labour Party, which argued that they would lead to mis-selling and many would end up worse off.[7]
Rural Development
In 1984 Vinson was the chairman of the Development Commission, 'England's rural development agancy'.[8]
Affiliations
- Civitas, Trustee | Nigel Vinson Charitable Trust | Taxpayers' Alliance, 'Business supporter'[9] | Global Vision, 'supporter' | Aims of Industry Council member 1972[3] | HS2 Cannot be Justified
External Resources
- TheyWorkForYou Lord Vinson
Notes
- ↑ Margaret Thatcher & the Centre for Policy Studies, 1974-79, Margaret Thatcher Foundation, accessed 21 April 2010.
- ↑ Keith Joseph, Our debt to a slayer of sacred cows, The Times, 25-March-1992
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Aims of Industry 30 years of Aims of Industry London: Aims of Industry 1972.
- ↑ Charity Commission Charity Framework, accessed 5 May 2011.
- ↑ Margaret Thatcher & the Centre for Policy Studies, 1974-79, Margaret Thatcher Foundation, accessed 21 April 2010.
- ↑ World Politics, Mrs Thatcher starts to plan for her third term, The Economist, 21-January-1984
- ↑ Nic Cicutti, The great pensions scandal: When you get to their age, you may not have enough to live on. Nick Cicutti investigates. . ., Sunday Independent, 22 May 1994.
- ↑ Rural Development, Financial Signpost / Rural development, the Guardian, 26-October-1984
- ↑ Taxpayers' alliance Prominent supporters, Accessed 18 November 2010
