Philip Snowden: The First Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer

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As Culture Secretary, Hunt devised and championed a plan to give Britain the fastest broadband speeds in Europe. There was initial scepticism about his plans with concerns they could lead to BT regaining its monopoly. [35] He also spearheaded the drive for local TV and as a result of this policy Ofcom awarded local television licences to Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Sheffield, Southampton, and Swansea. [36] In terms of culture policy, his main focus was to boost philanthropy given the spending cuts that the arts along with other sectors was experiencing. Changes were made to inheritance tax – including measures to encourage private gifts to the arts. [37] Woodward, Nicholas. The management of the British economy, 1945–2001 (Manchester University Press, 2004). Crewe, Ivor and King, Anthony, SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party (Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 74–75. Edward Longinotti, "Britain's Withdrawal from East of Suez: From Economic Determinism to Political Choice." Contemporary British History 29#3 (2015): 318–340. DOI She heads the procession – advisers, the chief executive of the British Footwear Association, a public affairs officer for the Salvation Army and Matt Keane, the Labour leader for Northampton North, all trail in her wake. This visit is being filmed for social media, so Reeves can show her real self to followers.

Pearce, Edward. "Denis Healey" in Kevin Jefferys, ed. Labour Forces: From Ernie Bevin to Gordon Brown (2002) pp.135–54. His views on nuclear weapons conflicted with the unilateral nuclear disarmament policy of the Labour Party. After the 1987 general election, he retired from the Shadow Cabinet, and in 1992 stood down after 40 years as a Leeds MP. In that year he received a life peerage as Baron Healey, of Riddlesden in the County of West Yorkshire. [47] Healey was regarded by some – especially in the Labour Party – as "the best Prime Minister we never had". [48] He was a founding member of the Bilderberg Group. [49] He was interviewed on his role as a co-founder of the Bilderberg Group by Jon Ronson for the book Them: Adventures with Extremists. [50] [51] Insall, Tony. Haakon Lie, Denis Healey and the Making of an Anglo-Norwegian Special Relationship 1945–1951 (Unipub, Oslo, 2010).Lashmar, Paul; Oliver, James (1988). Britain's Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977. Sutton Mill: Sutton Publishing. p.100. Dell, Edmund. The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer, 1945–90 (HarperCollins, 1997) 619pp; 17 chapters covering the terms of each chancellor. The chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury that sets Departmental Expenditure Limits. The amount of power this gives to an individual chancellor depends on their personal forcefulness, their status within their party and their 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. [9] 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. Political Profiles Issue Briefs Members of Parliament Guides Shadow Chancellor Who is the current Shadow Chancellor? Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British politician serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2022. He previously served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2012 to 2018 [a] and Foreign Secretary from 2018 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey since 2005.

Jonathan Church is impressed with Reeves, who worked as an economist at the Bank of England and at the British embassy in Washington DC before winning Leeds West for Labour in 2010. He thinks she would make a credible chancellor – serious, informed and with a previous life outside politics. “I’m not a great fan of career politicians,” he says. Burrell, Ian (15 May 2010). "Adam Boulton: Just don't tell him what he thinks". The Independent. London. Following the death of Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, in June 2013, Healey became the oldest sitting member of the House of Lords. [55] Following the death of John Freeman on 20 December 2014, Healey became the surviving former MP with the earliest date of first election, and the second-oldest surviving former MP, after Ronald Atkins. Right-winger wins British election". The Galveston Daily News. Galveston, TX. United Press International. 28 September 1981. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019 . Retrieved 1 January 2019– via Newspapers.com. Dalton's biographer, Ben Pimlott, suggests that Dalton had homosexual tendencies but concludes he never acted on them. [21] Michael Bloch, on the other hand, thinks that Dalton's love for Rupert Brooke, whom he met at Cambridge University's Fabian Society, went beyond the platonic, citing bike rides in the countryside and sleeping naked under the stars. [22]

Main article: Jeremy Hunt's tenure as Health Secretary Hunt during a trip to the US, in 2013 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with John Major, Hunt, Hugo Swire and Michael Howard, in 2013 Following a suggestion by Pigou (1912, p.24), Dalton proposed the condition that a transfer of income from a richer to a poorer person, so long as that transfer does not reverse the ranking of the two, will result in greater equity (Dalton, p.351). This principle has come to be known as the Pigou–Dalton principle (see, e.g., Amartya Sen, 1973). Wasn’t it irresponsible to make the promise before costing it? Again, the mantra. “Well, obviously, the financial circumstances have changed quite a lot since Keir became leader and things that might have been possible are just not possible now.” Does that mean when you are challenging for the leadership you can promise the world with no intention of delivering? “Well, I’m not sure I’d put it exactly like that, but certainly it’s a different process. Nobody in a leadership contest is asking you to write a manifesto.” But many Labour members regarded Starmer’s 10 pledges “based on the moral case for socialism” as exactly that. That is why they voted for him. Rachel Reeves in the Joseph Cheaney & Sons shoe factory in Desborough, Northamptonshire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Hunt served as Secretary of State for Health, later Health and Social Care, from 2012 to 2018. He served under both the Cameron premiership and May premiership and became the longest-serving health secretary in British political history. [2] During his tenure, Hunt oversaw the imposition of a controversial new junior doctors' contract in England after a dispute in which junior doctors undertook multiple strikes; [5] the first such industrial action for 40 years.

Dalton's papers, including his diaries, are held at the LSE Library. His diaries have been digitised and are available on LSE's Digital Library. [26] Awards [ edit ] The Treasury faced urgent problems. Half of the wartime economy had been devoted to mobilizing soldiers, warplanes, bombs and munitions; an urgent transition to a peacetime budget was necessary, while minimizing inflation. Financial aid through Lend Lease from the United States was abruptly and unexpectedly terminated in September 1945, and new loans from the United States and Canada were essential to keep living conditions tolerable. In the long run, Labour was committed to nationalization of industry and national planning of the economy, to more taxation of the rich and less of the poor, and to expanding the welfare state and creating free medical services for everyone. [7] Dalton in 1962 Before Dodds, the post of Shadow Chancellor was held for five years by close Jeremy Corbyn ally, John McDonnell. Before him it was held by Ed Balls. What does the Shadow Chancellor do?Healey attended the University of Oxford and served as a Major in the Second World War. He was later an agent for the Information Research Department, a secret branch of the Foreign Office dedicated to spreading anti-communist propaganda during the early Cold War. [2] [3] [4] Healey was first elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1952 for the seat of Leeds South East. He moved to the seat of Leeds East at the 1955 election, which he represented until his retirement at the 1992 election. Thorpe, Andrew (1997). A History of the British Labour Party. London: Macmillan Education UK. p.106. doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-25305-0. ISBN 978-0-333-56081-5. Hugh Dalton was born in Neath in South Wales. His father, John Neale Dalton, was a Church of England clergyman who became chaplain to Queen Victoria, tutor to the princes George (later King George V) and Albert Victor, and a canon of Windsor. The Shadow Chancellor is a key figure within the Shadow Cabinet, and a senior figure in both the Labour Party and Opposition politics. Is the Shadow Chancellor paid? Why did Labour promise one agenda when Starmer stood for the leadership and then pursue another? “One thing is that the economic situation was very different during that leadership contest. And as you get closer to the election, you’ve got to pull together a manifesto of what is possible during those circumstances.”

Adam Boulton: Sky's political editor on the channel's relaunch". The Independent. London. 24 April 2006. After supporting David Cameron's bid for leadership of the Conservative Party, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People in December 2005. In the same year, he was a co-author of a policy pamphlet Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party which included statements supporting denationalising the NHS and suggested replacing it with "a new system of health provision in which people would pay money into personal health accounts, which they could then use to shop around for care from public and private providers. Those who could not afford to save enough would be funded by the state". [27] Hunt later denied that the policy pamphlet expresses his views. [28] In David Cameron's reshuffle of 2 July 2007, Hunt joined the Shadow cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Healey stood a second time for the leadership of the Labour Party in November 1980, but narrowly lost to Michael Foot. Foot immediately chose Healey as his Deputy Leader, but after the Labour Party agreed a series of changes to the rules governing leadership elections, Tony Benn launched a challenge to Healey for the role; the election was bitterly contested throughout most of 1981, and Healey was able to beat the challenge by less than 1%. Standing down as Deputy Leader after Labour's landslide defeat at the 1983 election, Healey remained in the Shadow Cabinet until 1987, and entered the House of Lords soon after his retirement from Parliament in 1992. Healey died in 2015 at the age of 98, having become the oldest sitting member of the House of Lords, and the last surviving member of Harold Wilson's first government formed in 1964. At Oxford, Healey met future Prime Minister Edward Heath (then known as "Teddy"), whom he succeeded as president of Balliol College Junior Common Room, and who became a lifelong friend and political rival. Defty, Andrew (2005). Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-1953: The Information Research Department. E-book version: Routledge. p.3. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rded.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 978-0-900178-06-1. The Shadow Chancellor’s role is to critique and hold Chancellor Rishi Sunak to account, both within Parliament and on the media. The job also involves developing the Labour Party’s economic policies in preparation for a future Labour government.