Sentences with phrase «chancellor of the exchequer»

Leaving the EU could put # 250bn of British trade at risk, former chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has claimed, saying negotiating new free - trade deals with key export markets could take an average of six years.

In a letter to Sir John Chilcot, Mr Hewitt's mother Susan Smith writes: «We ask that you question Mr Brown about decisions he took as chancellor of the exchequer regarding funding of the Iraq war in light of evidence heard by your inquiry.

Carney earned the reputation of being the best central banker in the world, at least in the estimation of the U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, who finally managed to persuade Carney to accept the appointment as governor of the Bank of England this week.

So, for all the talk of wooing the Liberal Democrats, history suggests we shouldn't bet the mortgage on Vince Cable being the next chancellor of the exchequer.

If there were an election for chancellor of the exchequer in these key seats, Vince Cable would beat George Osborne and Alistair Darling hands down.

There has never been a female chancellor of the exchequer.

Among his impressive array of younger talent, who have proved themselves in opposition, are Gordon Brown who becomes chancellor of the exchequer, and Tony Blair, who becomes home secretary.

Being elected before the current chancellor of the exchequer — a position Clarke was appointed to over two decades ago - was even born allows you certain privileges...

The shorthand caricature of the new chancellor of the exchequer is that he is the ultimate safe pair of hands in government: a hardworking, technocratic colleague who will happily and conscientiously take good care of tricky ministries.

Officials at the Caribbean Tourism Organisation have welcomed a decision by UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne to cut Air Passenger Duty on long - haul flights departing from Northern Ireland.

2015 will see former chancellor of the exchequer and Scotland no vote campaigner exit the House of Commons

He said: «The sadness of George Osborne is that he is a formidably able man, he served with distinction as chancellor of the exchequer, and has decided since leaving Parliament to emulate a rather less successful Edward Heath.»

The U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, today announced his autumn budget statement which included # 200 million for research infrastructure.

«I give you the next chancellor of the exchequer,» she said.

And Ken Clarke, one of John Major's leading Cabinet allies and chancellor of the exchequer in the «90s, now finds himself leading the Remainer rebels on the Tory backbenches.

«He is quite simply the best, most experienced, and most qualified person in the world,» George Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer, told the British House of Commons.

George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, has responded to the furore over Starbucks, Google and Amazon by promising to use the country's imminent chairmanship of the G8 club of rich countries to wage war on tax havens.

Austen became leader of the House, chancellor of the exchequer and foreign secretary.

«The chancellor of the exchequer has lashed himself to the mast,» Miliband says, apparently referring to the economy.

12:21 - Apropos of almost nothing, Cameron remarks at the end of one question: «When I have a meeting with the chancellor of the exchequer, it's nothing like going to the dentist and there's no need for anaesthetic.»

This seems to be the case with the chancellor of the exchequer's autumn Budget statement.

«I'm guaranteeing for the next three years - and I've agreed this with the chancellor of the exchequer - that funding per - pupil will keep rising for every school - in fact, it will rise on average by more than 2 %, that's more than cost pressures.»

The chancellor of the exchequer is reforming the tax system to incentivise growth and job creation.

And in the recent budget, the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, spoke about increasing the numbers again which could mean more to come.

He writes that nine middle - aged men sitting round a table in the Holiday Inn were «stumped» when asked to name the chancellor of the exchequer:

She said: «I've decided to take up a position as special advisor to the chancellor of the exchequer.

The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, has delivered the financial package he hopes will convince voters to deliver a Conservative majority in May 2015.

First the party must respond to the government's plans on defence spending and, within a matter of days, he and his team must also craft an effective response to the chancellor of the exchequer's autumn statement.

Befitting its status as the senior coalition partner, contributing 306 of the coalition's original 363 MPs, and both the prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, the Conservative Party provided the the primary inspiration for the programme for government that ensued from the negotiations between the two parties.

Restoration of the 50p tax band (proposed by former Labour Leader Gordon Brown and his chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling in their 2010 budget);

«I am therefore writing to the chancellor of the exchequer to ask him to set out what happened on this occasion and whether this is a practice of the Treasury.

The chancellor of the exchequer has condemned Britain to a low - growth economy because, not in spite of, ideology and his long - term aim of a smaller state.

David Lloyd George, the chancellor of the exchequer, played a pivotal role in the British reaction to the 1914 crisis.

The UK's former chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, got a glitzy turnout for his post-Brexit pep talk to the US elite, hosted by Tina Brown.

Alistair Darling, chancellor of the exchequer, Channel 4 News, 25 November 2008

The Northern Powerhouse, as championed by the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, is what he hopes will emerge from a series of deals to devolve new powers and responsibilities away from central government in London, to regional authorities.

Denis Healey, his defence secretary and chancellor of the exchequer, said Harold Wilson never gave the Labour party any sense of direction.

Their target was the chancellor of the exchequer, Selwyn Lloyd.

«I expect that sort of language from the sketch writers of the Daily Mail, not from the chancellor of the exchequer.»

Linking the government's ability to undertake this sort of massive spending project to the success of austerity, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, suggested the programme will have widespread benefits.

«It is, perhaps, the one thing I'm most proud of,» the chancellor of the exchequer has said, but will the new national living wage work or will the risks overwhelm it?

This was a former Labour home secretary, chancellor of the exchequer, foreign secretary, prime minister and leader of the Labour party: being bawled at by nonentities, paper - sellers and placemen.

The Labour politicians who founded the SDP — the «Gang of Four» — were «big beasts»: Roy Jenkins had formerly been deputy party leader, chancellor of the exchequer, home secretary and president of the European Commission.

The chancellor of the exchequer should come back to Parliament and explain that.

But in fact the quote usually given is only the second part of what he said when, as chancellor of the exchequer, Disraeli wound up the debate on the Budget on 15 December 1852.

After Sir Gideon Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer, had announced his sudden conversion to cheaper petrol, she had been sent on to Newsnight to defend the decision.

«I can't see what the relevance of this is to the chancellor of the exchequer,» he said.

Mr. Hoban [Mark Hoban, the shadow Treasury minister]: To ask the chancellor of the exchequer (1) how many laptops have been stolen from HM Revenue and Customs in the last 12 months; [159919]