chancellor
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Research economist Nick Ridpath said: "Both higher borrowing costs and higher inflation make life harder for a chancellor who is looking to bring down borrowing and to spend more on government priorities."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Both camps last week agreed to bury the hatchet—for now—as all of the party’s eight state governors agreed to write a joint letter that didn’t mention Merz by name but expressed support for the chancellor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
She urged the chancellor to reverse the threshold freeze in this autumn's Budget.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Lamont was the U.K. chancellor who tried — unsuccessfully — to keep the U.K. in the European exchange-rate mechanism.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
When Willi Weisskirch’s father came home from work and read the newspaper headline, he exclaimed, “Oh my God! Now there will be a war. Hitler is the chancellor now, and that means war!”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Five of UC’s nine undergraduate campuses also have new chancellors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Over the same period, seven foreign secretaries, six chancellors of the exchequer and four cabinet secretaries.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
In a meeting with Big Ten presidents and chancellors at the time, Daniels suggested they agree to share a portion of their anticipated TV spoils with academics, he recalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Over five years at the OBR Richard Hughes faced five chancellors, and his relationship with all of them was designed to help promote UK economic stability.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
Among Conservative lord chancellors Lord Halsbury must always hold a high place, his grasp of legal principles and mastery in applying them being pre-eminent among the judges of his day.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
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