Sentences with phrase «new chancellor of the exchequer»
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.
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In the space of three years he went from being lauded as the UK's most successful chancellor of the exchequer who had declared the «end of boom and bust» and «the beginning of a new Golden Age» to presiding over a country in a debilitating credit crunch amid Labour in - fighting, a breakdown in relations with many colleagues including his chancellor, and ultimately a failure to dissuade the electorate against the Tory / Lib Dem mantra that Labour allowed it all to go wrong.
«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?
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.
On Wednesday, the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, and culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, are coming to Tate Britain to mark the launch of Legacy10, a new, independent campaign to turn a tax break announced in the last budget into a game - changer for fundraisers.