Chancellor of the Exchequer his duty to distribute as fairly as he can." The chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury which sets Departmental Expenditure Limits. The amount of power this gives to an individual chancellor depends on his personal forcefulness, his status within his party and his relationship with the prime minister. Gordon Brown, who became chancellor when Labour came into Government in 1997, had a large personal power base in the party. Perhaps as a result, Tony Blair chose to keep him in the same position throughout his ten years as prime minister; making Brown an unusually
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.