Not to be confused with Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland, Lord Chancellor, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Chancellor of the High Court, or Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
Chancellor and Under-Treasurer
of HM Exchequer
Royal Arms of HM Government
since 13 February 2020 (2020-02-13)
Her Majesty's Treasury
(UK and the Commonwealth)
Great Office of State
on advice of the Prime Minister
At Her Majesty's pleasure
First holder
Hervey de Stanton
in the Kingdom of England only
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
£71,090 (excluding £81,932 salary as MP)
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer,[a] often abbreviated to the Chancellor,[1] is a high ranking Minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Her Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a senior member of the British Cabinet.
Responsible for all economic and financial matters, the role is equivalent to that of a finance minister in other countries. The chancellor is now always Second Lord of the Treasury as one of at least six Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, responsible for executing the office of the Lord High Treasurer – the others are the Prime Minister and Commons government whips. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for the prime minister also to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer if he sat in the Commons; the last chancellor who was simultaneously prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer was Stanley Baldwin in 1923. Formerly, in cases when the chancellorship was vacant, the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench would act as chancellor pro tempore.[2] The last Lord Chief Justice to serve in this way was Lord Denman in 1834.
The chancellor is the third-oldest major state office in English and British history, and in recent times has come to be the most powerful office in British politics after the prime minister. They originally carried responsibility for the Exchequer, the medieval English institution for the collection and auditing of royal revenues. The earliest surviving records which are the results of the exchequer's audit, date from 1129–30 under King Henry I and show continuity from previous years.[3] The chancellor has oversight of fiscal policy, therefore of taxation and public spending across Government departments. It previously controlled monetary policy as well until 1997, when the Bank of England was granted independent control of its interest rates.
Second Lord of the Treasury
The holder of the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer is ex officio Second Lord of the Treasury as a member of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer.[4] As the Second Lord, his official residence is 11 Downing Street in London, next door to the residence of the First Lord of the Treasury (a title that has for many years been held by the prime minister), who resides in 10 Downing Street. While in the past both houses were private residences, today they serve as interlinked offices, with the occupant living in an apartment made from attic rooms previously resided in by servants.
Since 1827, the chancellor has always simultaneously held the office of Second Lord of the Treasury when that person has not also been the prime minister.
A previous chancellor, Robert Lowe, described the office in the following terms in the House of Commons, on 11 April 1870: "The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a man whose duties make him more or less of a taxing machine. He is entrusted with a certain amount of misery which it is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can."
The chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury which sets Departmental Expenditure Limits. The amount of power this gives to an individual chancellor depends on his personal forcefulness, his status within his party and his relationship with the prime minister. Gordon Brown, who became chancellor when Labour came into Government in 1997, had a large personal power base in the party. Perhaps as a result, Tony Blair chose to keep him in the same position throughout his ten years as prime minister; making Brown an unusually dominant figure and the longest-serving chancellor since the Reform Act of 1832.[5] This has strengthened a pre-existing trend towards the Chancellor occupying a clear second position among government ministers, elevated above his traditional peers, the Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary.
One part of the Chancellor's key roles involves the framing of the annual year budget. As of 2017, the first is the Autumn Budget, also known as Budget Day which forecasts government spending in the next financial year and also announces new financial measures. The second is a Spring Statement, also known as a "mini-Budget". Britain's tax year has retained the old Julian end of year: 24 March (Old Style) / 5 April (New Style, i.e. Gregorian). From 1993, the Budget was in spring, preceded by an annual autumn statement. This was then called Pre-Budget Report. The Autumn Statement usually took place in November or December. The 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2016 budgets were all delivered on a Wednesday, summarised in a speech to the House of Commons.
The budget is a state secret until the chancellor reveals it in his speech to Parliament. Hugh Dalton, on his way to giving the budget speech in 1947, inadvertently blurted out key details to a newspaper reporter, and they appeared in print before he made his speech. Dalton was actually forced to resign.[6]
Although the Bank of England is responsible for setting interest rates, the chancellor also plays an important part in the monetary policy structure. He sets the inflation target which the Bank must set interest rates to meet. Under the Bank of England Act 1998 the chancellor has the power of appointment of four out of nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee – the so-called 'external' members. He also has a high level of influence over the appointment of the Bank's Governor and Deputy Governors, and has the right of consultation over the appointment of the two remaining MPC members from within the Bank.[7] The Act also provides that the Government has the power to give instructions to the Bank on interest rates for a limited period in extreme circumstances. This power has never been officially used.
Ministerial arrangements
At HM Treasury the chancellor is supported by a political team of four junior ministers and by permanent civil servants. The most important junior minister is the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, a member of the Cabinet, to whom the negotiations with other government departments on the details of government spending are delegated, followed by the Paymaster General, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Whilst not continuously in use, there can also be appointed a Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and an Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury. Two other officials are given the title of a Secretary to the Treasury, although neither is a government minister in the Treasury: the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons; the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury is not a minister but the senior civil servant in the Treasury.
The chancellor is obliged to be a member of the Privy Council, and thus is styled the Right Honourable (Rt. Hon.). Because the House of Lords is excluded from financial matters by tradition confirmed by the Parliament Acts, the office is effectively limited to members of the House of Commons; apart from these occasions (see above) when the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench has acted as interim Chancellor the last peer to hold the office was Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington (at that time only a Baron, Lord Delamer) from 9 April 1689 to 18 March 1690. The chancellor holds the formerly independent office of Master of the Mint as a subsidiary office.[8]
Perquisites of the office
Official residence
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has no official London residence as such but since 1828 in his role as Second Lord of the Treasury he lives in the Second Lord's official residence, No. 11 Downing Street.[9] In 1997, the then First and Second Lords, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown respectively, swapped apartments, as the Chancellor's apartment in No. 11 was bigger and thus better suited to the needs of Blair (who had children living with him, including one born during his tenure) than Brown who was at that stage unmarried.
Dorneywood
Main article: Dorneywood
Dorneywood is the summer residence that is traditionally made available to the chancellor, though it is the prime minister who ultimately decides who may use it. Gordon Brown, on becoming chancellor in 1997, refused to use it and the house, which is set in 215 acres (87 ha)[10] of parkland, was allocated to Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. It reverted to the chancellor in 2007, then Alistair Darling.[11]
Budget box
Budget box or Gladstone box, c. 1860
The chancellor traditionally carries his Budget speech to the House of Commons in a particular red Despatch Box. The Chancellor's red briefcase is identical to the briefcases used by all other government ministers (known as ministerial boxes or "Despatch Boxes") to transport their official papers but is better known because the chancellor traditionally displays the briefcase, containing the Budget speech, to the press in the morning before delivering the speech.
The original Budget briefcase was first used by William Ewart Gladstone in 1853 and continued in use until 1965 when James Callaghan was the first chancellor to break with tradition when he used a newer box. Prior to Gladstone, a generic red Despatch Box of varying design and specification was used. The practice is said to have begun in the late 16th century, when Queen Elizabeth I's representative Francis Throckmorton presented the Spanish Ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, with a specially constructed red briefcase filled with black puddings.[citation needed]
In July 1997, Gordon Brown became the second chancellor to use a new box for the Budget. Made by industrial trainees at Babcock Rosyth Defence Ltd ship and submarine dockyard in Fife, the new box is made of yellow pine, with a brass handle and lock, covered in scarlet leather and embossed with the Royal cypher and crest and the Chancellor's title. In his first Budget, in March 2008, Alistair Darling reverted to using the original budget briefcase and his successor, George Osborne, continued this tradition for his first budget, before announcing that it would be retired due to its fragile condition.[12] The key to the original budget box has been lost.[13]
Budget tipple
By tradition, the chancellor has been allowed to drink whatever he or she wishes while making the annual Budget Speech to parliament. This includes alcohol, which is otherwise banned under parliamentary rules.
Previous chancellors have opted for whisky (Kenneth Clarke), gin and tonic (Geoffrey Howe), brandy and water (Benjamin Disraeli and John Major), spritzer (Nigel Lawson) and sherry and beaten egg (William Gladstone).[14]
The recent chancellors, Philip Hammond, George Osborne, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown,[15] opted for water. In fact Darling drank what was named "Standard Water" in reference to, and support of, the London Evening Standard newspaper's campaign to have plain tap water available in restaurants at no charge to customers.[16]
Robe of office
The chancellor has a robe of office,[17] similar to that of the Lord Chancellor (as seen in several of the portraits depicted below). In recent times, it has only regularly been worn at Coronations, but some chancellors (at least until the 1990s) have also worn it when attending the Trial of the Pyx as Master of the Mint. According to George Osborne, the robe (dating from Gladstone's time in office, and worn by the likes of Lloyd George and Churchill)[18] 'went missing' during Gordon Brown's time as chancellor.[19]
List of Chancellors of the Exchequer
Chancellors of the Exchequer of England (c. 1221 – c. 1558)
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Chancellor of the Exchequer of England
Term of office
(Reign)
Eustace of Fauconberg
(died 1228) c. 1221 N/A
John Maunsell
(1190/95–1265) c. 1234 N/A
Ralph de Leicester before 1248
Edward of Westminster 1248 N/A
Albric de Fiscamp before 1263
John Chishull
Lord Chancellor[1221 1]
(died 1280) 1263 1265
Walter Giffard
(c. 1225 – 1279) 1265 1266
Godfrey Giffard
Richard of Middleton
Archdeacon of Northumberland
(died 1272) 1269 1272†
Roger de la Leye before 1283
Geoffrey de Neuband
Philip de Willoughby 1283 1305
Sir John Benstead
(c. 1275 – 1323/24) 1305 1306
John Sandale
(died 1319) c. July
John of Markenfield 1309 1312
Bishop of Ely
(1260–1327) 1316 c. 1323
Walter de Stapledon
Lord High Treasurer
(1260–1327) 1324 c. January
Adam de Harvington
(c. 1270 – c. 1345) c. January
[1221 2]
Robert Wodehouse
Robert de Stratford
Bishop of Chichester
John Hildesle c. 1338 N/A
William de Everdon 1341 N/A
William Askeby
Archdeacon of Northampton 1363 N/A
Sir Robert de Ashton
(died 1385) 1375 c. June
Sir Walter Barnham c. June
1377 c. September
Henry Somer
MP for Middlesex
John Somerset
MP for Dover
(1402–1460) 1440? 1450?
Thomas Witham
(c. 1420 – 1489) 1454 N/A
(c. 1435–1503) c. March
1461 N/A
​ Sir Richard Fowler
(c. 1425 – 1477) 1469 c. April
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
(c. 1435–1503) c. April
1471 c. April
Sir William Catesby
Speaker of the House of Commons
(1450–1485) c. April
1483 c. 1484
Speaker of the House of Commons[1221 5]
(died 1524) c. August
John Bourchier
2nd Baron Berners
(1467–1533) 1524 1533?
KGPC
(c. 1485 – 1540) 12 April
1533 10 June
​ Sir John Baker
MP for Kent
(1488–1558) 1545 c. November
Mary I
^† Died in office.
^ Served until 1264.
^ Lord Lancaster served as Regent of England during the minority of Edward III.
^ The Regency government led by the Regency Council governed England during the minority of Henry VI.
^ The Duke of Gloucester served as Regent of England during the reign of Edward V.
^ Margaret Beaufort served as Regent of England during the minority of Henry VIII.
^ The Duke of Somerset and Duke of Northumberland served as Regent of England respectively during the reign of Edward VI.
Chancellors of the Exchequer of England (c. 1558 – 1708)
Chancellor of the Exchequer of England [20]
Name[b]
(Birth–Death)
Sir Richard Sackville
MP for Sussex
(c. 1507 – 1566) February
1559 21 April
Sir Walter Mildmay
MP for Northamptonshire
(c. 1523 – 1589) 1566 31 May
1589† [20]
Sir John Fortescue
MP for Buckinghamshire [1558 1] →
Middlesex [1558 2]
( c. 1531 – 1607)
1589 1603 [20]
George Home
1st Earl of Dunbar
(c. 1556 – 1611) 24 May
Sir Julius Caesar
(1557/1558–1636) 11 April
Sir Fulke Greville
MP for Warwickshire[1558 3]
(1554–1628) 15 October
Sir Richard Weston
MP for 4 constituencies respectively
(1577 – c. 1634) 29 January
1621 15 July
Edward Barrett
1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh
(1581 – c. 1645) 14 August
Francis Cottington
1st Baron Cottington
1629 6 January
Sir John Colepeper
(c. 1600 – 1660) 6 January
Sir Edward Hyde
(1609–1674) February
Vacancy during the Interregnum (1649–1660)
1st Baron Hyde
KtPC
(1609–1674) 1660 13 May
1661 Clarendon
Anthony Ashley Cooper
1st Baron Ashley
(1621–1683) 13 May
Sir John Duncombe
MP for Bury St Edmunds
(1622–1687) 22 November
1672 2 May
Danby I
​ Sir John Ernle
(1620–1697) 2 May
1676 9 April
​ Chits
William III
Mary II
Henry Booth
2nd Baron Delamer
(1652–1694) 9 April
1690 Carmarthen–Halifax [20]
Richard Hampden
MP for Buckinghamshire
(c. 1631 – 1695) 18 March
1690 10 May
1694 Carmarthen [20]
Charles Montagu
MP for Maldon →
Westminster [1558 4]
1699 Whig Junto I [20]
Sir John Smith
MP for Andover
(1655/56–1723) 31 May
1701 Pembroke [20]
​ Henry Boyle
MP for Cambridge University →
Godolphin–Marlborough
(Tory–Whig)
^ Served until 1589 during the 9th Parliament of Queen Elizabeth I.
^ Served from 1601 prior to the Golden Speech.
^ Served during the 3rd Parliament of King James I in 1621.
^ Elected to a new constituency in the 1695 general election.
Chancellors of the Exchequer of Great Britain (1708–1817)
Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain [20]
(1655/56–1723) 22 April
1708 11 August
1710 Whig Godolphin–Marlborough
Robert Harley
MP for Radnor
(1661–1724) 11 August
1711 Tory Oxford–Bolingbroke [20]
Robert Benson
MP for York
(c. 1676 – 1731) 4 June
1713 Tory [20]
Sir William Wyndham
MP for Somerset
(c. 1688 – 1740) 21 August
Sir Richard Onslow
MP for Surrey
1715 Whig Townshend [20]
MP for King's Lynn
1717 Whig [20]
James Stanhope
1st Earl Stanhope
1718 Whig Stanhope–Sunderland I [20]
John Aislabie
MP for Ripon
(1670–1742) 20 March
1718 23 January
1721 Whig Stanhope–Sunderland II [20]
Sir John Pratt
(1657–1725) (interim) 2 February
1st Earl of Orford
KGKBPC
MP for King's Lynn[1708 2]
1742 Whig Walpole–Townshend [20]
Samuel Sandys
MP for Worcester
(1695–1770) 12 February
1743 Whig Carteret [20]
​ The Right Honourable
Henry Pelham
(1694–1754) 12 December
1743 8 March
1754† Whig [20]
Broad Bottom
(I & II)
Sir William Lee
(1688–1754) (interim) 8 March
1754 Whig Newcastle I [20]
Henry Bilson-Legge
MP for Orford
Sir George Lyttelton
MP for Okehampton
1757 Whig Pitt–Devonshire [20]
William Murray
1st Earl of Mansfield
PCSL
(1705–1793) (interim) 13 April
1757 2 July
1757 Caretaker
MP for Orford →
Hampshire [1708 3]
1761 Whig Pitt–Newcastle [20]
William Barrington
2nd Viscount Barrington
MP for Plymouth
Sir Francis Dashwood
BtFRS
MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
1763 Tory Bute
(Tory–Whig) [20]
George Grenville
MP for Buckingham
(1712–1770) 16 April
1765 Whig Grenville
(Whig–Tory) [20]
William Dowdeswell
MP for Worcestershire
(1721–1775) 16 July
1765 2 August
1766 Whig Rockingham I [20]
MP for Harwich
(1725–1767) 2 August
1766 4 September
1767† Whig Chatham
Frederick North
Lord North
MP for Banbury
(1732–1792) 11 September
Lord John Cavendish
1782 Whig Rockingham II [20]
William Pitt the Younger
MP for Appleby
1783 Whig Shelburne
1783 Whig Fox–North [20]
MP for Appleby →
Cambridge University [1708 5]
1801 Tory Pitt I [20]
Henry Addington
MP for Devizes
1804 Tory Addington [20]
MP for Cambridge University
1806† Tory Pitt II [20]
Edward Law
1st Baron Ellenborough
PCKCFSA
(1750–1818) (interim) 23 January
1806 5 February
1806 Tory All the Talents
Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
(1780–1863) 5 February
MP for Northampton
1812† Tory Portland II [20]
Nicholas Vansittart
MP for East Grinstead →
Harwich [1708 6]
1817 Tory Liverpool [21]
^ Lord Parker served as Regent of Great Britain from 1 August to 18 September 1714.
^ Elevated to the Peerage of Great Britain on 6 February 1742.
^ Elected to a new constituency in the Hampshire by-election.
^ The Prince of Wales served as Prince Regent from 5 February 1811.
Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom (1817–present)
Although the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland had been united by the Acts of Union 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. III c. 67), the Exchequers of the two Kingdoms were not consolidated until 1817 under 56 Geo. III c. 98.[22][23] For the holders of the Irish office before this date, see Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland.
Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom [20]
1823 Tory Liverpool
Frederick John Robinson
(1782–1859) 31 January
George Canning
MP for Seaford
1827† Tory Canning
(Canningite–Whig) [25]
Charles Abbott
1st Baron Tenterden
(1762–1832) (interim) 8 August
1827 Tory Goderich N/A
John Charles Herries
(1778–1855) 5 September
Henry Goulburn
MP for Armagh
1830 Tory Wellington–Peel [20]
William IV
Viscount Althorp
DLFRS
MP for Northamptonshire →
South Northamptonshire [1817 2]
1834 Whig Grey [20]
Melbourne I
Thomas Denman
1st Baron Denman
(1779–1854) (interim) 14 November
1834 Whig Wellington Caretaker N/A
Sir Robert Peel
MP for Tamworth
1835 Conservative Peel I [20]
Thomas Spring Rice
MP for Cambridge
1839 Whig Melbourne II [20]
MP for Portsmouth
1846 Conservative Peel II [20]
Sir Charles Wood
MP for Halifax
(1800–1885) 6 July
1852 Whig Russell I [20]
1852 Conservative Who? Who? [20]
William Ewart Gladstone
MP for Oxford University
1855 Peelite Aberdeen
(Peelite–Whig) [20]
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
1858 Whig Palmerston I [20]
1859 Conservative Derby–Disraeli II [20]
MP for Oxford University →
South Lancashire [1817 3]
1866 Liberal Palmerston II [20]
1868 Conservative Derby–Disraeli III [20]
George Ward Hunt
MP for North Northamptonshire
1868 1 December
1868 Conservative [20]
MP for London University
(1811–1892) 9 December
1873 Liberal Gladstone I [20]
MP for Greenwich
1874 Liberal [20]
Sir Stafford Northcote
BtGCBFRS
MP for North Devonshire
1880 Conservative Disraeli II [20]
MP for Midlothian
1882 Liberal Gladstone II [20]
MP for Pontefract
Sir Michael Hicks Beach
BtDL
MP for Bristol West
(1837–1916) 24 June
1886 Conservative Salisbury I [20]
MP for Derby
1886 Liberal Gladstone III [20]
Lord Randolph Churchill
MP for Paddington South
1886 Conservative Salisbury II [20]
George Goschen
MP for St George Hanover Square
1892 Liberal Unionist [20]
1895 Liberal Gladstone IV [20]
1902 Conservative Salisbury
(III & IV)
(Con.–Lib.U.) [20]
MP for Croydon
1902 9 October
1903 Conservative Balfour [20]
Austen Chamberlain
MP for East Worcestershire
(1863–1937) 9 October
Herbert Henry Asquith
MP for East Fife
1908 Liberal Campbell-Bannerman [20]
MP for Caernarvon Boroughs
1915 Liberal Asquith
(I–III) [27]
Reginald McKenna
MP for North Monmouthshire
1916 Liberal Asquith Coalition
(Lib.–Con.–et al.) [20]
MP for Bootle →
Glasgow Central [1817 4]
1919 Conservative Lloyd George
(I & II) [20]
MP for Birmingham West
Sir Robert Horne
GBEKC
MP for Glasgow Hillhead
MP for Bewdley
1923 Conservative Law [20]
​ Baldwin I
Neville Chamberlain
MP for Birmingham Ladywood
Philip Snowden
MP for Colne Valley
1924 3 November
1924 Labour MacDonald I [20]
CHTD
MP for Epping
(1874–1965) 6 November
1929 Conservative Baldwin II [20]
(1864–1937) 7 June
1931 Labour MacDonald II [20]
National Labour National I
(N.Lab.–Con.–et al.)
MP for Birmingham Edgbaston
1937 Conservative National II [20]
​ National III
(Con.–N.Lab.–et al.)
GCSIGCVOOBE
MP for Spen Valley
1940 Liberal National National IV [20]
Chamberlain War
Sir Kingsley Wood
MP for Woolwich West
1940 21 September
1943† Conservative Churchill War
(All parties) [20]
Sir John Anderson
GCBGCSIGCIEPC (Ire)
MP for Combined Scottish Universities
(National) [20]
Churchill Caretaker
(Con.–Lib.N.)
Hugh Dalton
MP for Bishop Auckland
1947 Labour Attlee
Sir Stafford Cripps
MP for Bristol East →
Bristol South East [1817 5]
1950 Labour [20]
Hugh Gaitskell
MP for Leeds South
Richard Austen Butler
MP for Saffron Walden
1955 Conservative Churchill III [20]
Harold Macmillan
MP for Bromley
Peter Thorneycroft
MP for Monmouth
1958 Conservative Macmillan
Derick Heathcoat-Amory
MP for Tiverton
(1899–1981) 6 January
Selwyn Lloyd
CBEQC
MP for Wirral
Reginald Maudling
MP for Barnet
Douglas-Home
James Callaghan
MP for Cardiff South East
1967 Labour Wilson
Roy Jenkins
MP for Birmingham Stechford
Iain Macleod
MP for Enfield West
1970† Conservative Heath [20]
Anthony Barber
MP for Altrincham and Sale
Denis Healey
MP for Leeds East
(1917–2015) 5 March
(III & IV) [20]
Sir Geoffrey Howe
MP for East Surrey
1983 Conservative Thatcher I [20]
MP for Blaby
(born 1932) 11 June
1989 Conservative Thatcher II [20]
​ Thatcher III
John Major
MP for Huntingdon
(born 1943) 26 October
Norman Lamont
MP for Kingston-upon-Thames
(born 1942) 28 November
1993 Conservative Major I [20]
​ Major II
Kenneth Clarke
MP for Rushcliffe
(born 1940) 27 May
MP for Dunfermline East →
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath [1817 6]
(born 1951)
2007 Labour Blair
(I, II & III) [20]
Alistair Darling
MP for Edinburgh South West
2010 Labour Brown [31]
MP for Tatton
2016 Conservative Cameron–Clegg
(Con.–L.D.) [32]
Cameron II
MP for Runnymede and Weybridge
(born 1955) 13 July
2019 Conservative May I [33]
May II
MP for Bromsgrove
2020 Conservative Johnson I [34][35]
​ Johnson II
MP for Richmond (Yorks)
(born 1980) 13 February
2020 Incumbent Conservative [36]
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
List of Lord High Treasurers of England and Great Britain
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