Philip Snowden: The First Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer

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Shaw, Tony (1999). "The Information Research Department of the British Foreign Office and the Korean War 1950-53". Journal of Contemporary History. 34 (2): 267. doi: 10.1177/002200949903400206. JSTOR 261219. S2CID 159855506– via JSTOR. Healey was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Leeds South East at a by-election in February 1952, [23] with a majority of 7,000 votes. Following constituency boundary changes, he was elected for Leeds East at the 1955 general election, holding that seat until he retired as an MP in 1992. Ronson, Jon (2002). Them: adventures with extremists. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-2707-0. OCLC 47831472. Initially close to Tony Blair, who entered the Commons the same year, Brown was his chief whip from 1997-98, and then agriculture minister, but fell out with Downing Street over the foot and mouth crisis in 2001. He was demoted, then left the frontbench altogether, before being made chief whip under Gordon Brown, and briefly for Ed Miliband.

Oral history: HEALEY, Denis Winston (1917–2015)". The History of Parliament . Retrieved 14 July 2016. Radice, Giles. The Tortoise and the Hares: Attlee, Bevin, Cripps, Dalton, Morrison (Politico's Publishing, 2008).What does she typically worry about? “At school, I’d constantly worry that I wasn’t going to get the grades I wanted.” Which were? “As.” Sure enough, she got four As at A-level, in double maths, economics and politics. What else did she do besides study? “I am – I was – a geek. I played chess. I was the British girls under-14 champion.” 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.

I tell her I am Jewish and that I agree with a zero-tolerance approach to antisemitism, but the party is so gung-ho that it is now labelling people antisemitic who simply aren’t – and there is a danger of destroying lives in the process. 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.Political Profiles Issue Briefs Members of Parliament Guides Shadow Chancellor Who is the current Shadow Chancellor?