Chancellor of the Exchequer to parliament. This includes alcohol, which is otherwise banned under parliamentary rules. Previous chancellors have opted for whisky (Kenneth Clarke), gin and tonic (Geoffrey Howe), brandy and water (Benjamin Disraeli and John Major), spritzer (Nigel Lawson) and sherry and beaten egg (William Gladstone). The recent chancellors, George Osborne, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown, opted for water. In fact Darling drank what was named "Standard Water" in reference to, and support of, the London "Evening Standard" newspaper's campaign to have plain tap water available in restaurants at no charge to customers. The chancellor has a robe of office, similar to that
Stop of the Exchequer long-term banking privileges including the issue of notes. The Royal Charter was granted on 27 July through the passage of the Tonnage Act 1694. The Bank of England was founded 12 years after the Exchequer Stop - the actual consequence of the Exchequer Stop, at the time, was that banks such as Hoare's bank emerged - where the gold was physically kept on the premises rather than being entrusted to the government. Hoare's bank still exists to this day. Public finances were in so dire a condition at the time that the terms of the loan were that it was