The Race to Be the Next UK Chancellor

UK Special Coverage The Race to Be the Next UK Chancellor For the prospective prime minister, each candidate has drawbacks. UK Special Coverage Iain Macwhirter Jun 30, 2026 12:05 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The relationship between the prime minister and the chancellor is the most important in British politics. In short, they have to get on, or the government doesn’t. History is littered with examples of administrations that became dysfunctional because the first lord of the Treasury—to give the prime minister his full title—and the chancellor of the Exchequer did not see eye to eye. Most recently, when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown fell out in 2005 over the Labour succession, the government largely lost the plot.

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