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The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, [3] is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of His Majesty’s Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State , the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet .
Winston Churchill was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924 and served until 1929. He presented five budgets during his chancellorship. He was initially sceptical about advice from the Bank of England and leading economists to implement a return to the gold standard. In April 1925, however, he agreed to include the measure in his first ...
Baron of the Exchequer; 9 April 1783 23 December 1783 — Fox–North (Whig–Tory) — Edward Thurlow 1st Baron Thurlow: 23 December 1783 15 June 1792 Tory: Pitt I: Baron Thurlow in 1792 In commission: James Eyre, Chief Baron of the Exchequer; William Henry Ashurst, Justice of the King's Bench; John Wilson, Justice of the Common Pleas; 15 June ...
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Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2022 to 2024 and Foreign Secretary from 2018 to 2019, having previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2012 to 2018 [a] and as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from ...
Following the general election on 4 July, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appointed Rachel Reeves as Chancellor of the Exchequer, thus making Reeves the first female Chancellor in the 708 year history of HM Treasury. [15] Starmer appointed women to a record half of the Cabinet, including three of the five top positions in the British government.
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As Chancellor, he intended to pursue his free trade principles in the form of laissez-faire economics, as under the Liberal social reforms. [230] In April 1925, he controversially, albeit reluctantly, restored the gold standard in his first budget, at its 1914 parity, against the advice of leading economists including John Maynard Keynes . [ 231 ]