Mostly male, mostly pale and mostly stale? 🇬🇧 Chancellors of the Exchequer 1989 to 2025

There have been thirteen Chancellors of the Exchequer in the thirty-five years since 1989 when John Major took over from Nigel Lawson. They have had an average tenure of approximately three years. The longest serving Chancellor was Gordon Brown with ten years of tenure, while the shortest serving was Kwasi Kwarteng with just 38 days of service. Montage of openly licensed portraits from Wikimedia Commons:

 

1. 1989-1990 John Major w.wiki/AZD3

2. 1990-1993 Norman Lamont w.wiki/AZD6

3. 1993-1997 Kenneth Clarke w.wiki/AZDB

4. 1997-2007 Gordon Brown w.wiki/AZDD

5. 2007-2010 Alistair Darling w.wiki/AZDG

6. 2010-2016 George Osborne w.wiki/ATyi

7. 2016-2019 Philip Hammond w.wiki/AZDU

8. 2019-2020 Sajid Javid w.wiki/ASTK

9. 2020-2022 Rishi Sunak w.wiki/AP22

10. 2022-2022 Nadhim Zahawi w.wiki/ARsi

11. 2022-2022 Kwasi Kwarteng w.wiki/AZEe

12. 2022-2024 Jeremy Hunt w.wiki/AZEk

13. 2024-???? Rachel Reeves w.wiki/DRLu

 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a senior cabinet minister within the Government of the United Kingdom. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is one of the highest-ranking and influential members of the Cabinet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer

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