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
The Survivors of the Chancellor The Survivors of the Chancellor The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger () is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the "Chancellor", told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary). At the beginning of its voyage, the "Chancellor" carried eight passengers and twenty crew members. By the end, only eleven people (five passengers and six crew) remained alive. The crew and passengers of the "Chancellor" are at sea for four months, from September 27, 1869 to January 27, 1870.