By Dr Patrick Nolan, Chief Economist, Reform The Chancellor of the Exchequer faces a difficult task in putting together a Budget next week. Questions that the Budget will need to address include: · How can we convince the markets that...

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The three men vying to be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer are to take part in a live televised election debate on Channel 4.

This is the full text of the Budget statement to the House of Commons, delivered by HM Treasury's Rt hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer:

Gideon George Oliver Osborne, at present Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer [Photo by Simon Scarpa, reproduced under the GNU Free Documentation Licence] With the possible exception of David Cameron and the Conservative Praetorian Guard, everyone, I am sure, is much enjoying the current discomfiture of Gideon George Oliver Osborne, the beleaguered Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, who appears to ...

Have you been following the Prime Minister's reshuffle of all the talents? It's just so exciting, isn't it? He's reshuffled Alistair Darling from Chancellor of the Exchequer to...Chancellor of the Exchequer. He's reshuffled David Miliband from Foreign Secretary to....Foreign Secretary. Experts call this a sign of Prime Ministerial potency. Ahem. Meanwhile his heir apparent...

LONDON, April 5, 2004 – The Rt Hon Gordon Brown, MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, today officially opened Lehman Brothers’ new European headquarters building at 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London. Commenting on the event, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown, MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said: "I would like to pay tribute to the contribution you and your company make to the prosperity of Britain. Dur...

… when the Chancellor of the Exchequer needs to hire accountants to work out how much tax he should be paying. Of all people, you would have thought that the Chancellor would understand the tax rules and be able to work out his own tax burden! It shows that: The tax system is too complicated, and/or The Chancellor

I’m scratching my head over George Osborne’s proposed Office for Budget Responsibility. I’t supposed to give us confidence that a new regulator will mean that future governments will never again be able to live above their means. This tells us that no Chancellor of the Exchequer can ever again be trusted to look after the nation’s finances. George Osborne is the Shadow Chan...

SCOTLAND should be given sweeping new tax powers and its own Chancellor of the Exchequer, a right-of-centre think-tank recommended today.