Lord Lawson has repeated several 'facts' that are demonstrably innaccurate.

For instance, Lord Lawson stated that the total amount of ice in Antarctica is "not going down".

This work shows that Lord Lawson's statement was not consistent with the latest research.

All of these errors may have been accidental, the result of Lord Lawson not knowing enough to recognise mistakes.

(During the 1980s, the Houses were named after notable people from the history of the area surrounding Lord Lawson)

Lord Lawson serves on the advisory board of the Conservative magazine Standpoint.

Lord Lawson has been married and divorced twice:

Lord Lawson had a few minutes to make a decision.

"If the news itself was unpalatable, the very late stage at which I was informed made it even worse," Lord Lawson wrote.

If that was an offence Lord Lawson would have been banged up years ago.