Chancellor of the Exchequernoun
uk/ˌtʃɑːn.səl.ər əv ði eksˈtʃek.ər/us/ˌtʃæn.səl.ɚ əv ði eksˈtʃek.ɚ/the person in the UK government who is responsible for deciding tax levels and how much money the government can spend
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Government ministers & civil servants
- aide
- am
- attorney general
- backbencher
- cabinet
- functionary
- government
- Home Secretary
- kitchen cabinet
- mandarin
- marshal
- private secretary
- public servant
- regulator
- secretary
- Secretary of State
- senior statesman
- the Privy Council
- undersecretary
- Whitehall
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Economics
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- As Chancellor of the Exchequer he was called upon to shape the fiscal policies that would be the determining factor in the War of Wars.
- It was said of Gladstone that he was the greatest Chancellor of the Exchequer England ever saw, but that as a retail merchant he would soon have ruined himself by his bookkeeping.
- The course of taxation in recent years encourages the belief that the only thing that restrains the Chancellor of the Exchequer from taking our little all is that he does not know how much it is.
- The unequalled fiscal and arithmetical talents of my Chancellor of the Exchequer have, by the most rigid economy, succeeded in reducing the revenue very considerably below the actual expenditure of the state.
- Yet whenever a British Chancellor of the Exchequer has found it necessary to increase any of the taxes on consumption, the protests from the Irish benches have been invariably both loud and vehement.