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1 day ago · 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.
2 days ago · In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey, who would become a lifelong friend and political rival and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ...
3 days ago · Quite incredibly, even the Labour chancellors of the 1970s, such as Denis Healey, who (in)famously promised to tax the rich “until the pips squeak”, raised less than Jeremy Hunt is currently.
1 day ago · In the 1970s, it was Denis Healey and the International Monetary Fund bailout. In 2007 and 2008, the financial crisis. The Tories were struck by Black Wednesday in 1992 and forced out of the ...
1 day ago · In the autumn of 1976 the Labour Government under Chancellor Denis Healey was forced to ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan to ease the economy through its financial troubles.
5 days ago · Margaret Thatcher on Denis Healey, 22 January 1975 “Talking to Edward du Cann was rather like walking downstairs and somehow missing the last step. You were uninjured but remained disconcerted.”
3 days ago · But in his memoirs, Denis Healey, later Chancellor of the Exchequer, revealed that Wilson had called a meeting that April. asking his colleagues “to consider whether the government would suffer if the England footballers were defeated on the eve of polling day.” The government suffered.
