Sir Samuel Brittan (29 December 1933 – 12 October 2020) was an English journalist and author.
He was a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
[3] Malcolm Rifkind, his cousin, was the Secretary of State for Scotland, also inside the Margaret Thatcher government.
[7] On his relationship with Friedman at Cambridge Brittan said that he "proved a charming person; but at first I did not like being tutored by a far-out Republican and missing the true Cambridge Keynesian wisdom"[7] – recalling how the American economist dealt him "one of best put-down remarks I have ever encountered": [Friedman] mentioned to me a letter he had received from Arthur Burns saying that Eisenhower was turning out well as President.
[citation needed] Brittan was a supporter of the land value tax ideas of Henry George.