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Chancellors of the Exchequer

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  • Question of

    Whose red box was held up by every subsequent chancellor, bar two, between 1853 and 2011, to symbolically announce a new budget?

    • Gladstone
    • Disraeli
    • Palmerston
  • Question of

    The same red box was opened in 1868 by George Ward-Hunt only to find what?

    • His kitten.
    • A bottle of whisky.
    • He’d left his Budget speech at home.
  • Question of

    How many different Conservatives were in charge of the Exchequer during 2022?

    • Three
    • Four
    • Five
  • Question of

    Who was the shortest serving modern Chancellor?

    • Kwasi Kwarteng
    • Iain Macleod
    • Nadhim Zahawi
  • Question of

    Iain Macleod, who died in office after just 30 days, coined what phrase?

    • Nanny State
    • One Nation Conservatisim
    • Political Correctness
  • Question of

    Name the first female in Number Eleven?

    • Rachael Reeves
    • Jacqui Smith
    • Margaret Thatcher
  • Question of

    Which Chancellor moved into No. 10 Downing Street, so that his Prime Minister’s family could live in the more spacious No. 11?

    • Geoffrey Howe
    • Gordon Brown
    • Stafford Cripps
  • Question of

    And who took Brown’s place at the Treasury, when he became PM?

    • Alistair Darling
    • Ed Balls
    • Diane Abbot
  • Question of

    The last non-Tory/non-Labour Chancellor, John Anderson, was of what political persuasion?

    • Independent
    • Peelite
    • Liberal
  • Question of

    True or False: Winston Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer?

    • True
    • False

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