240: The Golden Chancellor

Chancellor Winston Churchill, headed for the House of Commons on budget day, 1929. With him are his wife Clementine, daughter Sarah, and son Randolph. This would be the fourth and final time Churchill presented the budget to the Commons as chancellor.

Winston Churchill couldn’t campaign in the 1922 general election, because he was recovering from abdominal surgery. He lost his seat in that election, and found himself (as he later put it) “without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.”

But Churchill returned to the Commons in 1924, now sitting with the Conservative Party for the first time in twenty years. And no one was more surprised than he when he was named chancellor of the exchequer.

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